The Pontifical Council for Families has received many messages of congratulations and good wishes from families in various countries around the world. We are publishing some of them, in the name of many others.

The newly elected Pope Francis, Card. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is a member of the Presidential Committee of our Pontifical Council for the Family since May 14, 2001, two and a half months after he was created Cardinal. In our magazine “Familia et Vita” n. 3/2005 (pp. 124-133), we published his Pastoral Letter on Childhood...