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Associations and Movements
A reflection of Cardinal Kevin Farrell on Fr. Luigi Giussani's contribution to the Church and the world

    Twenty years after the death of Fr. Luigi Giussani, the founder of  Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, Traces magazine published a reflection by Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, ...

Associations and Movements
Celebrations of the centenary of its pontifical approval at the Gregorian University in Rome and address by Cardinal Kevin Farrell

  “Charism does not end with the founder or its first co-workers, rather it continues to remain alive after them. It extends and expands into future generations. Indeed, as time passes, it ...

Associations and Movements
Bishop Msgr. Dario Gervasi, Adjunct Secretary of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, addressed the Magnificat Community during the association's General Conference

  “Communion and fraternity as the main paths of evangelization”. This is how Bishop Msgr. Dario Gervasi, Adjunct Secretary of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, urged the Magnificat ...

Associations and Movements
Report of the 2023 Annual Meeting has been published

  The report of the Annual Meeting of 2023 that the Dicastery organised with the Moderators of Associations of the Faithful, Ecclesial Movements and New Communities has been published. Organised ...

Associations and Movements
Invitation to stand at the crossroad of today with the same confidence and generous attitude as Mary

    On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the foundation, on last December 7, Pope Francis received the group leaders of the Focolare Movement - the Work of Mary, accompanied by the ...

Associations and movements
The passing of the Foundress of the Comunità Cenacolo

  On the night of Aug. 3, Mother Elvira Petrozzi, Foundress of the Comunità Cenacolo, left this world and the work she began, forty years after opening her first home. The Dicastery remembers her ...

Movements and Associations
Cardinal Kevin Farrell opens the Annual Meeting with Moderators

  After the Opening Mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica and the Audience with Pope Francis, the Annual Meeting with Moderators of Associations of the Faithful, Ecclesial Movements and New Communities ...

Movements and Associations
In New Synod Hall, the opening session together with about 200 moderators and delegates

"I am pleased to meet with you and take this opportunity to reflect with you on synodality, which you have chosen as the theme for your meeting".With these words, Pope Francis addressed the ...

Movements and Associations
On 13 June in the Vatican, the Annual Meeting with Moderators of Associations of the Faithful, Ecclesial Movements, and New Communities organised by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life

  Around 200 participants will attend the Annual Meeting with the Moderators of Associations of the Faithful, Ecclesial Movements, and New Communities, organised by the Dicastery for Laity, ...

Movements and Associations
The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life invites to join the initiative on 8 June

    “At 1 pm we are invited to dedicate a minute for peace – in prayer, for believers; in reflection, for non-believers – everyone together for a more fraternal world.” With these words, ...