In the Bible some of the most important happenings are associated with the number 40.  For example, in the flood that destroyed the world, it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. When the Jews escaped from slavery in Egypt, they wandered in the desert for 40 years before reaching the Promised Land.  When Jesus […]

In materials titled “The Meeting Point: Project for Affective and Sexual Formation,” the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family aims to provide sex ed resources based on Catholic teaching that avoid the twin problems of teaching youth too much about sex, and telling them too little. ROME- Trying to get ahead of the curve when […]

Presentation One of the most delicate tasks that parents have to face in the education of their children is their emotional formation, so they can respond to the most decisive vocation for every human being: the vocation to love. This vocation to love is the fundamental task of parents in the family. In accomplishing their […]

A friendly phone marked the beginning of the collaboration of the newborn Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life with the Academy for Life and the John Paul II Institute. In the afternoon of Tuesday, August 17th, after the publication of appointments by Pope Francis, Archbishop Paglia called Bishop Farrell on the phone to wish […]

(ANSA) – Vatican City, August 17 – Pope Francis on Wednesday named 71-year-old archbishop Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia as the new president of the Pontifical Academy for Life and as grand chancellor of the John Paul II Institute, ANSA sources said. Since 2012, Paglia has been president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, which will […]

On Thursday June 23, 2016, H. E. the Most Rev. Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, participated at a Parallel Event entitled Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, “The Joy of Love”. The Family as a Vital Force in Society. Organized by the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See, H. E. Mr. […]