EVENTS

March 2024

Workshop: “We are all sentinels” Pastoral care of listening (Colombia)

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April 2024

At the Priory of the Missionary Country  Brothers in Canappevile (Normandy – France)

Recollection with Father Jean-François Berjonneau, priest of the diocese of Evreux

On the theme “Living the advancing age under the sign of the annunciation”.

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On 18 April, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life hosted an online meeting on pastoral care of human life, attended by almost 200 people including heads of the Family and Life Commissions of the Bishops’ Conferences, representatives of family movements and associations, and members of research institutes belonging to the International Network of University Institutes for the Family (REDIUF) which have joined the Family Global Compact, coordinated by this Dicastery.

The three-hour webinar gathered experts who delved into and discussed specific issues that are of particular concern to pastors and families around the world today.

All the meeting’s materials are now available at:

https://www.laityfamilylife.va/content/laityfamilylife/en/news/2024/costruire-insieme-una-organica-pastorale-della-vita-umana--il-we.html

May 2024

Since Monday May 27, the text of the law on the end of life has been debated in the French National Assembly. Given the complexity of the subject and the number of amendments already tabled, the parliamentary debate is expected to last several months.

For a very long time, the Mouvement Chrétien des Retraités (MCR), which has almost 16,000 members in France, has made supporting people at the end of their lives one of its themes of reflection and action.

Special survey (in French) dedicated to this theme by the MCR

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