Anno Famiglia Amoris Laetitia

  The Pope Video for July has just been released with the prayer intention that Francis is entrusting to the entire Catholic Church through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. This month, the ...

The main celebrations of the 10th World Meeting of Families concluded with Mass in St. Peter's Square on the evening of Saturday, June 25. In his homily, the Pope encouraged families to carry on the ...

  The third and final day of the Pastoral Theological Congress of the 10th World Meeting of Families began with a Eucharistic adoration intended to offer the couples present an opportunity to ...

  With just a few days after the conclusion of the 10th World Meeting of Families, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life in a video encapsulates the legacy and the mandate that the Pope has ...

  The Pope Video for June has just been released with the prayer intention that Francis is entrusting to the entire Catholic Church through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. This month, the ...

  The 10th World Meeting of Families is less than a month away, and the organisers - Diocese of rome and Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life - are taking stock of the situation with a press ...

  The conference "Pastoral Practices, Life Experience and Moral Theology: Amoris Laetitia Between New Opportunities and New Paths" opened this morning, May 11, at the Pontifical ...

  "It will be a time of listening and encounter." Gabriella Gambino, Undersecretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, thus defined the 10th World Meeting of Families on ...

Five Vatican City State sheets and stamps were issued on May 16 to commemorate several important anniversaries including the upcoming World Meeting of Families.

  On 12 July we celebrate the memory of the holy spouses Luis Martin (1823-1894) and Zélie Guérin (1831-1877), spouses and parents of nine children, including Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus, ...

  Sara and Gianluca have been married for ten years and live in Villaggio Breda, eastern suburbs of Rome. They are parents of two little girls, they work, but most of all they work hard in the ...

  With only a few days to go before the start of the World Meeting of Families (June 22-26, 2022), the publication of the "Walking with Families" social pathway, offered by the ...

“The Amoris Laetitia Family Year is an opportunity for us to explore and meditate on the contents of the Apostolic Exhortation on love in the family. We can relaunch our commitment in all areas of ...

  «How do we imagine God’s love? Is there a concrete reality in the world that helps us see this love with our own eyes? Certainly there is! It is the family! The image of God is reflected in man ...

  The second day of the Theological Pastoral Congress was dedicated to the in-depth study of the matrimonial vocation. After the morning Mass presided over by Card. De Donatis, Vicar of His ...

  With the celebration of the opening Mass in St. Peter's Basilica - presided by Card. Kevin Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life - began the second day of the 10th ...

  There are three points that can offer food for thought for the upcoming World Meeting of Families that the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life wants to bring to everyone's attention in ...

  As we come closer to the 10th World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Rome from June 22nd to June 26th 2022, the Diocese of Rome has developed seven catecheses on the ...

  As we come closer to the 10th World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Rome from June 22nd to June 26th 2022, the Diocese of Rome has developed seven catecheses on the ...

  As we come closer to the 10th World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Rome from June 22nd to June 26th 2022, the Diocese of Rome has developed seven catecheses on the ...

  As we come closer to the 10th World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Rome from June 22nd to June 26th 2022, the Diocese of Rome has developed seven catecheses on the ...

  The French translation of the abridged version of the Family Global Compact is now available on the website of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life. It is a shared program of actions for ...

  The list of Institutes and Centers for the Family of Catholic Universities which have joined the Family Global Compact is now available on the ...

  The list of Institutes and Centers for the Family of Catholic Universities which have joined the Family Global Compact is now available on the ...

On the Feast Day of the Holy Family of Nazareth - and on the occasion of the "Amoris Laetitia Family" Year - Pope Francis wrote a Letter to Married Couples: a Christmas gift, an ...

  Praying the Holy Rosary is a special time to share with family members and other families. In the year of St. Joseph, praying the Rosary as a family is also a concrete way of obtaining a ...

In the Year of St. Joseph, a Decree issued by the Apostolic Penitentiary on December 8, 2020 on the granting of Indulgences states that the special gift of a Plenary Indulgence will be granted under ...

  Accompanied by great resonance and widespread diffusion, the publication of the “Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life” in the different languages is well proceeding. The English version is ...

  The aim is to set up discernment paths of catechumenal inspiration, which can truly accompany young people to rediscover their faith and experience it when the vocation to family life opens up ...

  In the Year for the Family “Amoris Laetitia”, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life has prepared this booklet on “Holiness in Families around the World” with the purpose of providing family ...

  The Pope Video for May has just been released with the prayer intention that Francis is entrusting to the entire Catholic Church through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. This month, the ...

  The Pope Video for May has just been released with the prayer intention that Francis is entrusting to the entire Catholic Church through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. This month, the ... ...

  The Pope Video for May has just been released with the prayer intention that Francis is entrusting to the entire Catholic Church through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. This month, the ... ...

  The Pope Video for May has just been released with the prayer intention that Francis is entrusting to the entire Catholic Church through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. This month, the ... ...

  The Pope Video for May has just been released with the prayer intention that Francis is entrusting to the entire Catholic Church through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. This month, the ... ...

  The Pope Video for May has just been released with the prayer intention that Francis is entrusting to the entire Catholic Church through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. This month, the ... ...

  The second and final session of the final day of the Forum “Where are we  with Amoris Laetitia? Strategies for the pastoral application of Pope Francis’ Exhortation” began with a ...

  The third day of the Forum “Where are we with Amoris Laetitia? Strategies for the pastoral application of Pope Francis' Exhortation” opened with a reflection on conjugal spirituality. In ...

  We have reached the final day of our Forum on “Where do we stand with Amoris Laetitia? Strategies for the pastoral application of Pope Francis’ Exhortation”. For the first time, all the ...

  “Today we will begin a 10-month journey undertaken together to talk about the beauty of being a family. Everyone is called to lovingly care for the life of the family, because families are ...

On March 19th, the beginning of the “Amoris Laetitia Family” Year took place, and with a video message Card. Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life,  introduces the ...

“In these five years, Amoris Laetitia has outlined the beginning of a journey, seeking to encourage a new pastoral approach to the family situation.”: These are some of the words Pope Francis sent ...

On the occasion of the opening of the “Amoris Laetitia Family Year,” and in anticipation of the Easter Triduum, the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations (WUCWO) held three webinars (in ...

Our Daily Love: this is the name of the online event organized for March 19 by the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, the Diocese of Rome and the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute ...

At the end of the Sunday Angelus Prayer, the Holy Father Francis recalled the upcoming opening of the Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia Family". The Pope referred to "Amoris Laetitia ...

  The second day of the Forum "Where are we with Amoris Laetitia? Strategies for the pastoral application of Pope Francis' Exhortation" was entirely devoted to the formation of carers ...

The first day of the Forum "Where are we with Amoris Laetitia? Strategies for the pastoral application of Pope Francis' Exhortation" opened today with the first day of work. The aim of the ...

With a video message sent to the Dicastery, Pope Francis opened the work of the Forum "Where are we with Amoris Laetitia? Strategies for the pastoral application of the Apostolic ...

"Children are the hope that revives a people! [...] If families are not at the centre of the present, there will be no future; but if families restart, everything restarts." Said Pope ...

The experience of the pandemic has exposed false certainties and revealed the pitfalls present in relationship dynamics. Fragility and vulnerability have also emerged in the lives of individuals as ...

The Family and Life Commission of the CCEE (Council of Bishops' Conferences of Europe) invited representatives of the Bishops' Conferences from all over Europe to the first official online meeting of ...

“With the same look of tenderness and mercy that Jesus had, the Church wants to accompany families so that every family might be a pillar of evangelization. I would like to say one thing to you: with ...

  From June 9-12, 2021, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life is organising and hosting an online Forum "Where are we with Amoris Laetitia? Strategies for the pastoral application of Pope ...

The Pope Video has just been published with the intention that Francis is entrusting to the entire Catholic Church through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. In the context of the “Special year of ...

Sunday 25 July will see the celebration of the First World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. The theme chosen by the Holy Father for this World Day is “I am with you always” (cf. Mt 28:20) which ...

A press conference to mark the start of the Amoris Laetitia Family Year, which will begin on 19 March, the Solemnity of St Joseph and the fifth anniversary of the publication of the apostolic ...

On 11 February, l’Osservatore Romano published an address of the Secretary of the Dicastery, Fr. Alexandre Awi Mello, I. Sch., on the institution of the World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly, ...

Since the Holy Father first opened the “Amoris Laetitia Family Year,” preparations for many events focused on deepening an appreciation for the Apostolic Exhortation—which celebrated its fifth ...

«The family has a natural vocation to educate children. (…)  To be parents requires love and the desire to bring out the best in others. Fatherhood and motherhood are irreplaceable roles. ...

The Message of Pope Francis on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which falls on December 3rd, was presented today - 25 November 2021 - at the Holy See Press ...

  The two days of the "Forum on discernment in the Family", offered by the group of professors of the Diploma in Family Ministry at the Pontifical Gregorian University, responded to the ...

    (L'Osservatore romano [original:Italian], 19 October 2021) by GABRIELLA GAMBINO Reading Pope Francis' Apostolic Letter Patris corde, one comes across at one point a quote from a ...

  The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life launches a new initiative of the "Amoris Laetitia Family Year”, dedicated by Pope Francis to the family. After the Rosary for Engaged couples, the ...

  On the occasion of the Amoris Laetitia Family Year desired by Pope Francis on the fifth anniversary of the Apostolic Exhortation on the joy of family love, the John Paul II Pontifical ...

  “Young people are ‘God’s now’ and the strength of the Church,” says Father Alexandre Awi Mello, Secretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life, when talking about  the ...

  Last September 28-30, the Week of the Family entitled "Family: vocation and task", was held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. Prof. Gabriella Gambino, Undersecretary ...

  "All of you have the opportunity to transform your life, to know God!" It's a call that comes from four young deaf brothers from Mexico who, in the second video of the #IamChurch ...

  In his recent Message on the occasion of the International Day dedicated to the disabled persons, Pope Francis affirms that "no one can refuse the Sacraments to people with ...

  Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Diocese of Carabayllo, Peru, erected in 1996 by St. John Paul II, Card. Kevin Farrell sent his greeting in which he invited the Peruvian diocese to take ...

  The latest video in the #IamChurch series tells of Antonietta and Federico, two young people from Rome who are living their faith experience within a Faith and Light community. Their story is ...

  © L'Osservatore Romano, 3 december 2021 - Persons with disabilities are lay faithful who, by virtue of Baptism, have received the same prophetic, priestly, and royal mission as every ...

  In his Message addressed to persons with disabilities on the occasion of the International Day dedicated to them, Pope Francis reminds us - citing Gaudete et Exsultate - that we all have a ...

  «The family does not consist only of husband and wife, children, because Jesus dwells in the marriage. The Lord lives in the family truly and concretely. He is communicated through acts of love ...

  On the day of the Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth - and on the occasion of the "Amoris Laetitia Family" Year - the Holy Father Francis for the first time writes a Letter to ...

  © Vatican News, 27 december 2021 - "A Christmas gift to you, newly married couples, an encouragement, a sign of nearness and an occasion for meditation." This is how Pope ...

  The VI "National Pro-life Congress", hosted by Archbishop Thomas Wenski and the Archdiocese of Miami, was held in Miami from October 29 to 31 last. Gathered there were members of the ...

  «Today, families are severely tried by weakness. We are all fragile – and separation, divorce, and living together are now a reality that many families in the world deal with. The Church has ...

  Pope Francis, in his message to persons with disabilities on the occasion of the International Day dedicated to them, wrote: Baptism makes each one of us a fully-fledged member of the ecclesial ...

    Andrea Monda – Alessandro Gisotti © L'Osservatore romano, 13 January 2022. The Special Year dedicated to Saint Joseph ended 8 December 2021, but Pope Francis’ attention and love for ...

The fourth video in the #IamChurch series is a reflection by Australian Jesuit priest, Fr. Justin Glyn S.J., who - starting from his condition of disability - addresses the issue of limits, which ...

The fourth video in the #IamChurch series is a reflection by Australian Jesuit priest, Fr. Justin Glyn S.J., who - starting from his condition of disability - addresses the issue of limits, which ...

  Last September 15, at the Centre Saint-Louis of the Institut français in Rome, a webinar entitled The new pastoral style of Amoris Laetitia: welcoming, accompanying, discerning and integrating, ...

This past 27 January, Dr. Gabriella Gambino, Undersecretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life, met online with members of FAFCE (Federazione delle Associazioni Familiari Cattoliche ...

This past 27 January, Dr. Gabriella Gambino, Undersecretary of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life, met online with members of FAFCE (Federazione delle Associazioni Familiari Cattoliche ...

  To close off the "Amoris Laetitia Family" Year, the journal Educatio Catholica has dedicated the monographic section of issue No. 4/2022 to the relationship between "Education ...

  Experts and representatives of institutions dedicated to family science from all over South America participated - virtually and in attendance – in  the meeting held a few days ago at the ...

  The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life was invited by the Bolivian Bishops' Conference to speak at the meeting to program the National Plan for Family Pastoral Care for the three-year period ...

  Families wish to walk along the synodal path as pastoral and ecclesial subjects, giving their contribution with their own experience of joy and suffering to the mission of the Church. ...

  During the International Forum on Amoris Laetitia (June 9-12, 2022) held during the Amoris Laetitia Family Year, bishops' conferences and international movements and associations involved in ...

  One year from the celebration of the X World Meeting of Families, which concluded the "Amoris Laetitia Family" Year, at the Church level there is still an echo of the many ...

  The document is an initiative of the "Amoris Laetitia Family Year" and responds to the Holy Father's desire to offer new paths for preparation for the sacrament of marriage. "The ...

  The document is an initiative of the "Amoris Laetitia Family Year" and responds to the Holy Father's desire to offer new paths for preparation for the sacrament of marriage. "The ...

  At the closure of the "Amoris Laetitia Family" Year, and some days after the 10th World Meeting of Families, the Keys to Bioethics - A Manual of Bioethics for Youth App, created ...

  At the closure of the "Amoris Laetitia Family" Year, and some days after the 10th World Meeting of Families, the Keys to Bioethics - A Manual of Bioethics for Youth App, created ...

  “A shared program of actions” to establish dialogue between family ministry and family research centers in Catholic universities throughout the world “for the promotion of the family in light ...

  On Friday 18 February 2022, the study seminar entitled Discernment: a Christian way of life took place, organized by the "John Paul II" Pontifical Theological Institute and the ...

  As we come closer to the 10th World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Rome from June 22nd to June 26th 2022, the Diocese of Rome has developed seven catecheses on the family, ...

  As we come closer to the 10th World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Rome from June 22nd to June 26th 2022, the Diocese of Rome has developed seven catecheses on the ...

  As established by Pope Francis, the World Meeting of Families in June 2022 will be a “multi-centre” and “widespread” event. Each diocese therefore should organize events, reflections and ...

  On Sunday, July 24, 2022, the Second World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly will be celebrated throughout the universal Church. The theme chosen by the Holy Father for the occasion is ...

  From March to December 2021, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life – in collaboration with the Dicastery for Communication and Vatican News – released 10 Amoris Laetitia Videos, with the ...

  The Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and the Family are organizing in Rome, an international conference of ...

As we come closer to the 10th World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Rome from June 22nd to June 26th 2022, the Diocese of Rome has developed seven catecheses on the family, so ...

  As announced today after the Angelus, Pope Francis has decided to institute a Church-wide celebration of a World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. Starting this year, it will be held on the ...

From 7 – 14 February, coinciding with both the beginning of Lent and St. Valentine’s Day, the Catholic Church in the Unites States will celebrate National Marriage Week, as a time to reflect on the ...

From 7 – 14 February, coinciding with both the beginning of Lent and St. Valentine’s Day, the Catholic Church in the Unites States will celebrate National Marriage Week, as a time to reflect on the ...

From 7 – 14 February, coinciding with both the beginning of Lent and St. Valentine’s Day, the Catholic Church in the Unites States will celebrate National Marriage Week, as a time to reflect on the ...

The Diocese of Rome and the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life now present the official prayer for the 10th World Meeting of Families to be held in Rome from 22 to 26 June 2022. The official hashtag ...

  It is Pope Francis himself who is presenting the X World Meeting of Families, to be held from June 22-26, 2022. He does so through a video message, released today and available on Vatican News ...

  This morning at 11:30 a.m., a press conference was held in live streaming from the Holy See Press Office for the presentation of the X World Meeting of Families, to be held in Rome from June 22 ...

«A generic concern for the family in large pastoral projects is not enough. We need a new missionary thrust: we cannot stop at theory, but we need to grapple with people’s concrete problems. Preparing ...

In June, Cardinal Kevin Farrell attended two meetings held for the Shalom Congress of Families and the 40th anniversary of Couples for Christ. In his messages for both events, the Cardinal took the ...

"After such a difficult year there is a great need to celebrate, together, grandparents and grandchildren, young and old." With these words, Card. Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for the ...

  From 9 to 12 June 2021, An online Forum: “Where are we with Amoris Laetitia? Strategies for implementing the apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis,” has been held and gathered the heads of ...

"I invite you to celebrate this Day in every community and to visit grandparents and the elderly, those who are most alone" said Pope Francis after Sunday’s Angelus and all over the world ...

  In celebrating the "Amoris Laetitia Family" Year proclaimed by Pope Francis, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life (DLFV) and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS), with ...

  The official image of the 10th World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Rome from June 22-26, 2022, was painted by Father Marko Ivan Rupnik - artist, theologian and director of the ...

  “Marriage is a precious sign. It is an image of God’s love for us. This does not mean that the love spouses have for each other must be perfect… No love is perfect. But the love spouses have ...

Pope Francis, who was unable to attend the liturgy in St. Peter's in person, wanted to personally greet the grandparents and elderly who had just participated in the celebration of the first Day ...

For many of the 2,000 elderly people present in St. Peter's last Sunday, celebrating the first World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly was the first opportunity for them to leave the forced ...

«Love always gives life. Spousal love is not exhausted within the couple, but generates a family. Parents’ love is the means by which God shows His love. He awaits the birth of every baby. He accepts ...

  “Love excuses all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Everything! Anything! It is love in spite of everything. To love means to rejoice for others, for their ...

On April 23-24, the Faculty of Theology - Diploma in Family Pastoral Care of the Gregorian University organized the Forum on Discernment in the Family in the Amoris Laetitia Family Year. To open the ...

"Establishing the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly should be read in light of other positions expressed during Pope Francis’ pontificate. He moves from a broad conception of the holy ...

In preparation for the upcoming World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life is making a video available in which grandparents and the elderly from all over the ...

In preparation for the upcoming World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life is making a video available in which grandparents and the elderly from all over the ...