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Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development

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Pope names 12 new consultors to Vatican human development dicastery, including an LA appointee

Ishmael Adibuah|Aug 18, 2026|3 Min Read

Salesian Sister Alessandra Smerilli, newly named prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and member of the board of directors of the Laudato Si' Center for Higher Education, speaks during a press preview of the Borgo Laudato Si' initiative in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Sept. 2, 2025. Pope Leo XIV named Sister Smerilli, who had previously served as dicastery secretary, prefect on June 30, 2026. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope Leo appoints Sister Smerilli to lead Vatican’s human development dicastery

Courtney Mares|Jun 30, 2026|4 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

Dylan Corbett, executive director of the Hope Border Institute in El Paso, Texas, is one of four Americans Pope Leo XVI appointed March 30, 2026, as members of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development. Corbett is pictured in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy Hope Border Institute)

4 US leaders named to Vatican dicastery that promotes Church's humanitarian vision, work

OSV News|Mar 30, 2026|4 Min Read

Refugees

With refugees at heart of Pope Francis' pontificate, Vatican dicastery carries out church's outreach to them

Dale Gavlak|Jun 20, 2023|5 Min Read

Caritas Internationalis

Caritas elects new president, stressing local connections in aid

Justin McLellan|May 15, 2023|4 Min Read

Czerny

Papal message for World Peace Day: War, hunger, turmoil are connected

Cindy Wooden|Dec 16, 2022|4 Min Read

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines, and Aloysius John, secretary-general of Caritas Internationalis, are seen in this composite photo. (CNS composite/photos by Gregory A. Shemitz, and Paul Haring)

Pope Francis removes Caritas Internationalis leaders, appoints temporary administrator

Hannah Brockhaus|Nov 21, 2022|2 Min Read

Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect for the Vatican Diacastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, gives a public address at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago Sept. 17, 2022. His lecture on "Life, Solidarity and Fraternity: The Consistent Ethic of Life in Light of 'Fratelli Tutti'" was hosted by the Bernardin Center at the graduate school of theology. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic)

World

Czerny: Consistent ethic of life includes just economic, social systems

Michelle Martin|Oct 4, 2022|5 Min Read

Mohtas Anwar Modier, a Sudanese refugee who received a visa to study in Italy, speaks at a conference on immigration in Rome Sept. 27, 2022. Government representatives and leaders of Catholic immigration efforts attended the conference sponsored, by the International Catholic Migration Commission and the Canadian Embassy to the Holy See. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

World

Healing by helping: Welcoming refugees builds community, speakers say

Cindy Wooden|Sep 28, 2022|4 Min Read

Bishop Oscar Cantú of San Jose, Calif., silhouetted, delivers his homily in a chili field at a Mass for migrant farmworkers in Hatch, N.M., in this Sept. 26, 2019, file photo. The Vatican office dedicated to concerns of migrants and refugees has published a new guide on intercultural migrant ministry. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Vatican releases guidelines for intercultural ministry for migrants

Carol Glatz|Mar 24, 2022|4 Min Read

Cardinal Peter Turkson, left, Cardinal Michael Czerny and Salesian Sister Alessandra Smerilli are seen in this composite photo. Pope Francis accepted Cardinal Turkson's resignation as prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development Dec. 23, 2021, and has asked Cardinal Michael Czerny and Salesian Sister Alessandra Smerilli to oversee the dicastery until a new prefect is named. (CNS photos/Paul Haring)

Pope names Cardinal Czerny interim head of dicastery

Cindy Wooden|Dec 23, 2021|3 Min Read

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