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06/12/2016
The website of the new Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life: www.laityfamilylife.va has been online for a few days now. On this site, you can find news about us, updates on social happenings, and videos. Just like our Dicastery, the site has just been born and is evolving, but we would like it to increasingly become a place of listening and dialogue with the Christian laity and...
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06/12/2016
There is already intense communication between the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life and Panama's Local Organizing Committee in view of the 2019 World Youth Day, to be held in that Central American city. On 7 and 8 November, at the Dicastery's office, the first working meeting was held in preparation for the next world gathering of the young. The delegation from Panama, led by Archbishop...
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06/12/2016
Since Monday 14 November 2016 a new book collecting the proceedings of the last year International Sport Seminar is available at the Libreria Editrice Vaticana (the Vatican Bookstore). The Seminar was held in the Vatican by the Pontifical Council for the Laity (now Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life). The book of the proceedings is now available in English, and version in Italian...
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06/12/2016
The website of the new Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life: www.laityfamilylife.va has been online for a few days now. On this site, you can find news about us, updates on social happenings, and videos. Just like our Dicastery, the site has just been born and is evolving, but we would like it to increasingly become a place of listening and dialogue with the Christian laity and...
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06/12/2016
Since Monday 14 November 2016 a new book collecting the proceedings of the last year International Sport Seminar is available at the Libreria Editrice Vaticana (the Vatican Bookstore). The Seminar was held in the Vatican by the Pontifical Council for the Laity (now Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life). The book of the proceedings is now available in English, and version in Italian...
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20/09/2016
"I am spiritually present and take part in the recital of this Marian prayer dedicated to the family, which is uniting grandparents, parents and children in the transmission of the faith. This does so much good for the renewal of our ecclesial conscience and the 'small domestic churches' that are too often challenged by the spirit of individualism and selfishness contrary to the loving and unifying...
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06/12/2016
The spiritual path indicated by Pope Francis to the young continues along the line of reflection begun at the last three World Youth Days (2014-16), which focused on the Beatitudes and culminated at last summer's celebration in Krakow. For the next three years, with a path that will lead to the 2019 World Youth Day in Panama, the Holy Father wants to present the Virgin Mary to young...
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06/12/2016
With these words, the Pope began his address to the new Cardinals created in the consistory of 19 November, including the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who assumed his position at the helm of the new organization of the Roman Curia September 1st, 2016. "Our goal and aspiration is to strive, on life’s plain, together with the People...
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03/11/2016
The topic is not "only that of the 'remoteness' of many from the ideal and the practice of the Christian truth about marriage and the family; even more decisive is the subject of the Church's 'closeness,' her nearness to new generations of spouses, so that the blessing of their union increasingly convinces and accompanies them, and closeness to situations of human weakness, so that grace can rescue...
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13/07/2016
Amoris Laetitia is a long and important text, the result of a great synod. This is shown by the numerous quotations that Pope Francis introduced; as the Pope says in no. 4 of the document, it is: "both impressive and illuminating." Such a complex text will certainly call for many studies and analyses of the different aspects and themes that constitute it. The volume published by LEV, Il legame familiare...
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18/05/2016
Enzo Bianchi, Prior of Bose; Msgr. Bruno Forte, Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto; but also Birgit Mock, spokesperson of Central Committee of German Catholics for family policies, along with many Bishops and Cardinals. Lively debate continues in the columns of the Osservatore Romano after the publication of Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis' recent Apostolic Exhortation on the family. Other interventions are...
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01/05/2016
This is an Apostolic Exhortation that stimulates discussion and opening up. This can be clearly seen in the number of commentators who have been willing to share their reflections on the words and concepts contained in "Amoris Laetitia," the long-awaited document written by the Holy Father in the conclusion to the Synod on the family of the past two years. An example of this lively commenting,...
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31/10/2016
"The Young and Received Faith," "The Young and Celebrated Faith," and "The Young and Witnessed Faith" are the major themes of the three-year pastoral plan approved by the Plenary Assembly of the Angolan Bishops, which ended on October 19 in Luanda. The theme of youth will be taken up in all the archdioceses and dioceses during the National Eucharistic Congress, on 13 November. Reflecting on the country's...
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29/10/2016
"Loving is our mission – We discover the beauty of the family together" is the theme of the 4th National Family Congress scheduled for 29 October, in Montevideo, Uruguay. The work at this gathering, organized by the Ministry for the Family and Life of the local Bishops' Conference, will begin at 2:30 pm and be preceded by a Mass celebrated at 12:00 noon in the city's Cathedral. ...
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25/10/2016
The family was at the center of the pastoral projects, religious education in schools, and a document on catechesis presented at the Plenary Assembly of the Croatian Bishops, last week in Zagreb. In the light of the results of the last two Synods of Bishops on the family and Pope Francis' Post-Synodal Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, the bishops decided to relaunch an old project of the Episcopal Conference...
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06/12/2016
The spiritual path indicated by Pope Francis to the young continues along the line of reflection begun at the last three World Youth Days (2014-16),...
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06/12/2016
With these words, the Pope began his address to the new Cardinals created in the consistory of 19 November, including the Prefect of the Dicastery for...
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11/11/2016
Carlos Pérez Testor, director of the Vidal and Barraquer University Institute of Mental Health in Barcelona, is the new president of the European...
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10/11/2016
"We are here to celebrate the beauty and joy of love, and to spread the good news of the family," said Msgr. Carlos Simon Vasquez, Undersecretary of the...
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31/10/2016
"The Young and Received Faith," "The Young and Celebrated Faith," and "The Young and Witnessed Faith" are the major themes of the three-year pastoral plan...
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29/10/2016
"Loving is our mission – We discover the beauty of the family together" is the theme of the 4th National Family Congress scheduled for 29 October,...
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25/10/2016
The family was at the center of the pastoral projects, religious education in schools, and a document on catechesis presented at the Plenary Assembly of...
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23/10/2016
"The Family: Center of Love and Mercy" is the title of the project realized by the Hispanic community of the Diocese of Raleigh, in the USA. On the occasion...
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20/10/2016
Pope Francis gave 33 catechesis on the family between 17 December 2014 and 18 November 2015, touching on a great variety of topics: Nazareth, mothers,...
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19/10/2016
"To prove that prayer entrusted to children has great power, like an arrow that goes straight to God's heart. The prayer of the Rosary recited by children...
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19/09/2016
The Italian edition of this book for children is finally in the bookstores. The volume, written by Don Andrea Ciucci for the Dicastery's web page for children,...
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18/09/2016
Ten years have passed since he left the United States to see the world in pursuit of his dream: music. "I've worked as a conductor in Vienna, Amsterdam,...
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21/12/2012
A new “Enchiridion of the family” was presented at the VII World Meeting of Families in Milan. The text contains the most recent teachings of the Church on the issues of family and human life, including writings and discourses from the last years of the pontificate of John Paul II as well as, for the first time, those of Benedict XVI, from 17 May 2005 to 31 December 2011.
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18/07/2012
Is the family based on a stable union of a man and a woman with children still a resource for people and for society? Today there are a variety of ways in which individuals constitute a family.
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25/10/2012
“Ciao, Papa!” is the first paperback book for families published by the Pontifical Council for the Family.
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28/11/2012
In mid-January 2013 the “Acts of the VII World Meeting of Families” held this year in Milan, from 30 May to 3 June, will be published.
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