Youth

WYD Seoul 2027
The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, Seoul and Lisbon work together for the next World Youth Day in 2027

  On 27 and 28 May, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life met with the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of Seoul, which will host the next edition of World Youth Day (WYD). The invitation was ...

Youth Ministry
The International Congress on Youth Ministry has concluded. Here are the key points that emerged from the meeting

  The International Congress on Youth Ministry – ‘For a Synodal Youth Ministry: New Leadership Styles and Strategies’ – which was organised by the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life ...

Youth Ministry
Pope Francis’ invitation to go forth with courage, bringing to all the good news that Jesus is alive and that Jesus is the Lord

The third and final day of the International Congress on Youth Ministry organised by the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life opened with an audience with Pope Francis. We publish his complete ...

Youth Ministry
Starting anew from Christus vivit by taking a synodal approach

  After the first day, during which the first preparatory meeting for World Youth Day in Seoul in 2027 occurred, the entire second day of the International Congress on Youth Ministry organised by ...

Youth Pastoral Ministry
To the 300 participants also the presentation of the next Youth Jubilee and WYD Seoul 2027

  The International Congress on Youth Ministry organised by the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life (DLFL) commenced this morning, on 23 May 2024. Around 300 participants from 110 ...

Youth Ministry
From 23 to 25 May, the International Congress on Youth Ministry

  From 23 to 25 May, approximately 300 delegates of Episcopal Conferences from 110 countries will take part in the International Congress on Youth Ministry which was organised by the Dicastery ...

Centro San Lorenzo
De Paula Souza: Let us entrust to the Cross of Youth the sufferings of humanity, with the renewed hope that Christ is alive and wants us alive

  On 13 and 14 April, the 'Festival of Hope' was held at the San Lorenzo International Youth Centre (CSL) to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first youth meeting in Saint Peter's Square ...

Christus Vivit
A reflection by Card. Kevin Farrell on L'Osservatore romano

    L'Osservatore romano - In 2019, with the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Christus vivit, Pope Francis brought to completion the synodal journey he himself launched in October ...

Christus Vivit
Five years after the publication of Christus Vivit, Pope Francis writes a new message to young people

  On 25 March 2019, in the Holy House of Loreto, Pope Francis signed the Post-Synodal Exhortation Christus Vivit, a 'letter' to young people that encapsulated the work of the Synod of Bishops on ...

WYD
From the 25th of February to the 25th of April, a 12-week social campaign to rediscover the relevance of the Pope's letter to young people and keep alive the experience of World Youth Days

  This year, the Church celebrates the five-year anniversary of the publication of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Christus Vivit. On the 25th of March 2019 in fact, Pope Francis signed ...