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Pope Leo XIV's words to participants in the Dicastery's 3rd Plenary Assembly

    On the third and final day of the Plenary Assembly of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, participants were received in audience by Pope Leo XIV. Below find the Holy Father's ...

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In his opening remarks, Cardinal Kevin Farrell emphasised the urgency of formation and the importance of World Meetings

  On Wednesday, Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life, opened his Dicastery's third plenary assembly,  being held from 4 to 6 February at the ...

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‘Until Christ is formed in you’ (Gal 4:19): The formation of the laity in Christian life will be the theme of the meeting

  The third Plenary Assembly of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life will be held from Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 February at the General Curia of the Jesuits in Rome. The theme of the meeting ...

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After the greeting by Card. Farrell, the Holy Father's address to the participants in the 2nd Plenary Assembly of the Dicastery

  "You are a 'popular' Dicastery, I would say, and this is beautiful! Remember: never lose this characteristic of closeness to the women and men of our time. Closeness, I emphasize ...

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Cardinal Kevin Farrell's Address to the Holy Father

  We publish the Address to the Holy Father Francis by the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, on the occasion of the Holy Father' Audience to the ...

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The Second Plenary Assembly of the Dicastery takes place from April 20 to 22

  The Second Plenary Assembly of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life opened today on the theme “Laity and Ministry in a Synodal Church”. Some 35 members and consultors from around the world ...

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The first Plenary Assembly of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life as part of the evangelical renewal of the Church

  “Do not clericalize the laity, and open new horizons for a better understanding of women in the Church.” These are the two concepts that Pope Francis, in adding them at the end of his address, ...