Youth
Message WYD
Walk with young people to be witnesses of peace and fraternity
‘You also are my witnesses, because you have been with me” (Jn 15:27) is the verse that guides Pope Leo XIV's Message for the 40th World Youth Day (WYD), which this year will again be ...
WYD Seoul 2027
Musicians and composers worldwide are invited to create the official hymn for the next World Youth Day in Seoul
The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of World Youth Day (WYD) Seoul 2027, together with the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, is pleased to announce the launch of the WYD Theme Song ...
Family
De Paula Souza: “Young people’s enthusiasm and vision of the future can help change reality”
The Secretary of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, Dr. Gleison De Paula Souza, was invited to speak on the theme “A future of inclusion for young pilgrims of hope. How to ...
Laity
Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, examples of holiness for young people
“Dear friends, Saints Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis are an invitation to all of us, especially young people, not to squander our lives, but to direct them upwards and make them ...
WYD Seoul 2027
Pope Leo XIV announces the dates of the next international edition of the World Youth Day
At the end of the Angelus prayer, immediately after Holy Mass on the occasion of the Youth Jubilee 2025, Pope Leo XIV announced the dates of the next World Youth Day in Seoul in 2027: ...
WYD Seoul 2027
Secretary Gleison De Paula Souza and a delegation from the Dicastery visit Seoul to accompany the progress of preparations for the next International WYD
The Secretary of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, Dr. Gleison De Paula Souza, accompanied by Fr. Franco Galdino, coordinator of the Youth Area of the Dicastery, and officials from ...
Laity
In June, the beatification of the young Congolese man and the announcement of canonisations and decrees of venerability
On 15 June, the solemn beatification of the young Floribert Bwuana Chui, a Congolese from Goma, took place. He was killed in 2007 after resisting pressure to allow shipments of rotten rice to ...
Youth
De Paula Souza spoke at the Interreligious Forum for Peace in the Balkans in Koper, organised by the Slovenian Bishops' Conference
Highly sensitive to the serious conflict in Eastern Europe and aware of the fragility of peace, even in the Balkan countries, the bishops of the Slovenian Bishops' Conference organised, once ...
Family
Today and tomorrow, a study seminar on the ecclesial and pastoral mission in relation to young people and families
“Dear brothers and sisters, I am pleased that following the celebration of the Jubilee for Families, Children, Grandparents, and the Elderly a group of experts has gathered at ...
Pope Leo XIV
Young people, children and mothers, in Pope Leo XIV's first Regina Coeli
On Sunday 11 May, Pope Leo XIV appeared on the balcony of the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica and, in front of about 100,000 people, recited his first Regina Coeli. Welcoming and ...