Local Church
Laity
Our secretary, Father Awi Mello, attended the Continental Congress of Laymen and Laywomen in Brazil
The letter on the participation of the laity in public life that Pope Francis sent on 19th March to Cardinal Francesco Marc Oellet, President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, ...
Local Churches
“Shattered Ties” is the title of the series of encounters proposed by the Family Pastoral Office of the Diocese of Padua and addressed to people living in circumstances of separation, divorce or ...
Argentina
The traditional family will always be needed in the globalized future
A few days ago, Father José Guillermo Gutiérrez from our Dicastery attended a conference called "Truth and Values in the Family and in the Community", organized by the Catholic ...
World Youth Hope
Extract from the conference on young people and new technologies in Romanian high schools
We are publishing the talk Marco Busati, who cooperates with our Dicastery and is the Director of Hope, is giving in high schools in Cluj, Blaj, Oradea and Bucarest this month, in ...
Local Churches
“The result aside, we should also reflect on the fact that an apparent failure can be full of hope”: were the word of the Greek-Catholic Bishop, Claudiu Pop, vicar of the Cardinal of Blaj ...
Ad limina
On the occasion of their ad limina visit to our Dicastery, the Scottish bishops shared the experience of their particular churches, albeit a minority in their territory, yet without fear of making their voices heard
With 700,000 faithful out of a population of over 5 million, the Catholic Church in Scotland is present nationwide in public debate and on sensitive issues such as the end of life, research on ...
Romania
The free union "between man and woman" continues to be the foundation of the family. This is what the Catholic Bishops of Romania have stated in a press release issued the day after the ...
Local Churches
The reality of the local Church presented by the Bishops of England and Wales on the occasion of their visit to our Dicastery, on September 24th, is that of a community facing the challenges of ...
Towards the Synod
Among the objectives of the meeting that ends tomorrow, more formation and development of a critical spirit
The National Council of the Laity of Brazil (CNLB) is organizing, for its young members, a national meeting that will be held in the Sagrada Família formation center, in São Paulo, with the aim of ...
Dicastery
Fr. Awi Mello: “We need to train laity for the urgent needs of our time, and for the needs of a Church that looks outwards towards society, the specific environment of the laity”
Three international associations led the concluding panel discussion on day three of the International Symposium: “Promotion and Formation of the Laity: best practices”, organised by the Dicastery for ...