The Global Catholic Pact on the Family will involve Catholic universities of the five continents and will be presented at the end of the World Meeting of Families in 2022.
By Vatican News staff reporter

The Vatican has launched the process of creating a Catholic Global Compact on the Family,  a shared programme of actions for promoting the family throughout the world in light of the Social Doctrine of the Church.  
The Vatican Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life (DLFV) released the plan on Friday, saying the initiative is to celebrate the current Amoris Laetitia Family Year proclaimed by Pope Francis. 

The process to create the Catholic Global Compact on the Family was launched in the past few weeks by the DLFV and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS), in collaboration with the International Centre of Family Studies (CISF), based in Milan, Italy.  

A DLFV statement explained that the Compact involves the study and research centres on the family of Catholic Universities in the five continents. The Compact will collect information and research carried out on the cultural and anthropological importance of the family, focusing particularly on family relationships, the social value of the family and good practices of family policies at the international level.

Amoris laetitia (The Joy of Love) is the post-synodal apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis on the beauty and joy of love in the family.

Released on March 19, 2016, the document summarizes the reflections and insights of the synod fathers and participants in the two-part Synod of Bishops on the family held in the Vatican in October of 2014 and 2015.

On 19 March 2021, the Church celebrated the 5th anniversary of the publication of Amoris Laetitia.  On that day, Pope Francis launched the Amoris Laetitia Family Year, which will conclude on 26 June 2022 during the 10th Meeting of Families in Rome with him.
The Catholic Global Compact on the Family "will be presented as part of a closing event, before the World Meeting of Families".

As part of the ongoing celebration of the Amoris Laetitia Family Year, the DLFV organized an online Forum from June 9-12 on the theme, "Where are we with Amoris Laetitia? Strategies for the pastoral application of Pope Francis' Exhortation". The 4-day initiative brought together the experiences and perspectives of the heads of offices of family pastoral ministry of bishops’ conferences, associations and international ecclesial movements, on the implementation of Amoris laetitia at the local levels.  The inputs were intended to help implement the application of the Apostolic Exhortation in a pastoral and missionary perspective.

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"After celebrating Mass at St. Francis’ tomb on Saturday October 3, the eve of the saint’s feast day, Pope Francis signed his new encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship,” on the altar under the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi, source of the document’s title and inspiration.
Due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the Mass was described as “private.” Only about two dozen people were in the small crypt chapel: they sat socially distanced and they wore masks.Several Franciscan sisters were present, as were the ministers general of the main Franciscan orders of men: Father Michael Perry, minister general of the Franciscans; Father Roberto Genuin, minister general of the Capuchins; and Father Amando Trujillo Cano, minister general of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis.
The encyclical was released to the public in Rome on Sunday October 4 just after the Angelus (midday).
This is Pope Francis’ third encyclical letter, after “Lumen Fidei” in 2013 (a text largely prepared under Pope emeritus Benedict XVI) and “Laudato Si” in 2015. It is by far his most comprehensive;    a social and political testament and an encapsulation of his entire papacy.
Perhaps the best overall way to frame the encyclical is as an extended meditation on political and economic life in the early 21st century, including the impact of the coronavirus crisis. Pope Francis sees a contest between two flawed alternatives: privileged individualist indifference and blind, nationalist populism. Instead, Pope Francis’ “third way” is a social ethic of human fraternity, rooted for Christians in the Gospel parable of the Good Samaritan.
Pope Francis’ proposed remedy is human fraternity: care for the elderly; combatting racism and sexism; compassion for immigrants; debt forgiveness for impoverished nations; a strong role for the U.N. and for regional alliances; and abolitionist positions on both war and capital punishment. More than anything else, the specific issues treated in “Fratelli Tutti” appear to be illustrating an ethic of fraternity - one which begins with rejecting aggression as a means of relating to others. The tendency to aggression, he believes, has been made significantly worse by the coronavirus and the shift to increasingly “virtual” relationships."                 Jessica Easthope and Cindy Wooden (Currents News Staff) and John L. Allen Jr. (Adapted)