Vatican Offers free e-book for Family Rosary
The Vatican Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life and the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network have a gift for families for the month of October, which is...
Category: Family
Passing on a Heritage of Love
As we celebrate Heritage Day on 24 September, Imelda Diouff looks at celebrating diversity and passing on what matter to the next generation. The “Rainbow Nation” appears...
The Need to be Pro-Family for a Stable Society
The pandemic has upended our lives. The global instruction to lockdown, create your safe space and social distancing, created a world of bubbles. Us and them! Who...
Pope Francis: 2022 World Meeting of Families will include local gatherings
Pope Francis called for local gatherings to be held across the globe at the same time as next year’s World Meeting of Families in Rome. “At past...
Becoming My Father
In a time of social and political uncertainty, Imelda Diouf draws from lessons from her father. I’ve become my father! My father was born in 1930. That...
Pope: The Myth that only Money, Success Matter is Gangrene for a Nation
By Carol Glatz – If families are not the priority of the present, there will be no future, Pope Francis said as he opened a meeting in...
Family Portraits: Sometimes Messy, But Grace-Filled
By Cindy Wooden – Sometimes the Catholic Church has “proposed a far too abstract and almost artificial theological ideal of marriage, far removed from the concrete situations...
Why Families are the Economy’s Building Block
In all the talk about economic policies, the family is usually ignored. Yet, it is the family that should be a basis for economic development, argues IMELDA DIOUF....
Pope Francis Announces Year Dedicated to the Family
Pope Francis announced Sunday a special year dedicated to the family, marking the fifth anniversary of the publication of his apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia. In his Angelus...
Now Is The Time To Focus On Families
Now that the worst of the coronavirus crisis seems to be behind us, it’s time to place a focus on families, argues IMELDA DIOUF. Congratulating ourselves...
SA Pastoral Survey Points To Need To Support Family
The Sekwele Centre for Family Studies, based in Bethlehem, Free State, conducted its brief online survey under the theme “Family and Pastoral Plans” to assess participation and...
Pray With the Pope: July 2020
Pope’s Universal Prayer Intention: That today’s families may be accompanied with love, respect and guidance. The great value of family connections As a great-uncle, I watch the...
