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Dicastery for Laity the Family and Life

Pope Leo XIV meets with Supreme Knight Patrick E. Kelly of the Knights of Columbus Oct. 6, 2025, during an audience with a Knights delegation at the Vatican. On Aug. 25, 2026, Pope Leo appointed Kelly as a member of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly appointed to Vatican's family and life office

Ishmael Adibuah|Aug 25, 2026|2 Min Read

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2 Vatican dicasteries jointly release document on 'integral ecology' in family life

Vatican News|Apr 30, 2026|2 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV waves as he arrives for a meeting with leaders of 115 international Catholic associations, ecclesial movements and new communities in the Vatican's Clementine Hall June 6, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Church unity, mission must be at heart of all Catholic groups, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Jun 6, 2025|3 Min Read

Pope Francis offers candy to a child after celebrating Mass for the World Day of the Poor in St. Peter's Basilica Nov. 17, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pro-life movement needs new approach, driven by all the faithful, dicastery says

Carol Glatz|Mar 24, 2025|4 Min Read

Focolare

Pope adds married couples, Church movement reps to Vatican’s laity and family office

Jonathan Liedl|Nov 25, 2023|3 Min Read

Family

Vatican reaffirms ‘no’ to birth control, IVF in new family compact

Elise Ann Allen|May 31, 2023|6 Min Read

Laity

Catholics must overcome 'temptation' of divisions, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Feb 18, 2023|4 Min Read

laity

Vatican conference aims to empower laity without ‘clericalizing’ them

Elise Ann Allen|Feb 15, 2023|7 Min Read

Gleison De Paula Souza, a husband and father of two children, was named secretary of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life by Pope Francis Nov. 17, 2022. (CNS photo/courtesy Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life)

Pope taps layman as new secretary of Laity, Family, Life

Catholic News Service|Nov 17, 2022|1 Min Read

Pope Francis arrives to bless candles at the Chapel of the Apparitions at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal May 12. The pope was making a two-day visit to Fatima to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Marian apparitions and to canonize two of the young seers. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) See POPE-FATIMA-VIGIL May 12, 2017.

Vatican lays the groundwork for World Youth Day in Portugal

Elise Ann Allen|Oct 19, 2022|4 Min Read

Pope Francis greets U.S. Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, during Mass in St. Peter's Square during the World Meeting of Families at the Vatican June 25, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Vatican investments must follow Catholic social teaching, new policy says

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jul 19, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Francis greets a baby before attending Mass in St. Peter's Square during the World Meeting of Families at the Vatican June 25, 2022. U.S. Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, presided at the Mass. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Look to the future, not to the past, pope tells families

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jun 25, 2022|5 Min Read

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