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Pope Francis, Statutes, Secretariat for Laity, Family, and Life, 10 April 2018.
Statutes of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life
§1. The Dicastery has its own members, including lay faithful, men and women, single and married, engaged in different fields of activity and from different parts of the world, thus reflecting the universal character of the Church.
§2. It has its own Consultors.
§3. The Dicastery fully complies with all the norms established for the Roman Curia.
§1 It promotes in the lay faithful an awareness of co-responsibility, by virtue of Baptism, for the life and mission of the Church, according to the different charisms received for common edification, with particular attention to the special mission of the lay faithful in animating and improving the ordering of temporal affairs (see LG, 31).
§2. In the spirit of the pastoral constitution Gaudium et Spes, which invites us to adopt as our own “the joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age,” promotes all the initiatives concerning the evangelizing action of the lay faithful in various sectors of temporal affairs, taking into account the competence that other bodies of the Roman Curia may have in these same subjects.
§3. It also promotes the participation of the lay faithful in catechetical instruction, in liturgical and sacramental life, in missionary activity, in works of mercy, charity and human and social promotion. It also supports and encourages its active and responsible presence in parish and diocesan life, and in the advisory organs of governance present in the Church on a universal and particular level.
§4. It evaluates the initiatives of the Episcopal Conferences that ask the Holy See, according to the needs of the particular Churches, for the institution of new ministries and ecclesiastical offices.
§1. Within the sphere of its competence, the Dicastery accompanies the life and development of the aggregations of the faithful and of lay movements; it then erects those of an international character and approves or recognizes statutes, without prejudice to the competence of the Secretariat of State; it also deals with possible administrative appeals relating to the matters under the jurisdiction of the Dicastery.
§2. Concerning the Secular Third Orders and the associations of consecrated life, it is occupied only with matters relating to their apostolic activity.
The Dicastery works to deepen the reflection on the relationship between men and women in their respective specificity, reciprocity, complementarity and equal dignity. Valuing the feminine “genius,” it offers a contribution to ecclesial reflection on the identity and mission of women in the Church and in society, promoting their participation.
§1. In the light of the papal Magisterium, it promotes the pastoral care of the family, protects its dignity and its wellbeing based on the sacrament of marriage, and fosters its rights and responsibility in the Church and in civil society, so that the family institution can always better fulfil its functions both in the ecclesial and in the social sphere.
§2. Discern the signs of the times to value opportunities in favour of the family, take on with trust and evangelical wisdom the challenges that relate to it, and apply in today’s society and in history the plan of God for marriage and the family. In this sense it promotes international conferences and events, in particular the World Meeting of Families.
§3. It monitors the activity of Catholic institutes, associations, movements and organizations, national and international, whose purpose is to serve the good of the family.
§1. It is occupied with research on doctrine on the family and its dissemination through adequate catechesis; in particular, it promotes studies on the spirituality of marriage and the family, and their formative implications.
§2. It offers guidelines for training programs for engaged couples preparing for marriage, and for young married couples. It expresses the pastoral care of the Church also in relation to so-called “irregular” situations (cf. AL, 296-306).
§3. It also offers guidelines for pastoral programs that support families in the formation of young people in faith and in ecclesial and civil life, with special attention to the poor and marginalized, as well as to intergenerational dialogue.
§4. It promotes the openness of families to the adoption and fostering of children and to the care of the elderly, making itself present in civil institutions to support these practices.
It is directly linked to the “Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences,” both with headquarters and affiliated institutes, to promote a common direction in marriage, family and life studies.
§1. Supports and coordinates initiatives in favour of responsible procreation, as well as for the protection of human life from conception to its natural end, bearing in mind the needs of the person in the various stages of evolution.
§2. Promotes and encourages organizations and associations that help women and families to welcome and cherish the gift of life, especially in the case of difficult pregnancies, and to prevent abortion. It also supports programs and initiatives aimed at helping women who have had abortions.
Pope Francis, Statutes, Secretariat for Laity, Family, and Life, 10 April 2018. English “working translation” accessed 7 May 2018 at: http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2018/05/08/0329/00712.html#ing