FAMILY GLOBAL COMPACT
“Dear,
The Family Global Compact is a shared program of actions for the promotion of the family throughout the world in light of the Social Doctrine of the Church.
A common commitment is needed to foster the leading role of the family in the economy, society, the development of the human person and the common good”.
“It is , therefore, decisive to create and strengthen links and synergy with the Church, particularly with family ministry. The gaze of the universities is scientific and interdisciplinary, but it is essential to keep our eyes on the reality of the territory, in dialogue with the concrete actions of family pastoral care and the local Church in order to respond to the needs that the latter will periodically highlight“.
CARD. KEVIN FARRELL
Prefect
Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life
SR. HELEN ALFORD
President
Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
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4 ACTION POINTS
It is in the family that many of God’s dreams for the human community are realized.
We cannot be indifferent to the future of the family as a community of life and love, a unique and indissoluble covenant between a man and a woman, a place where generations meet, a source of hope for society.
I thank all those who have joined the Family Global Compact and those who will do so in the future, and I invite them to devote themselves with creativity and confidence to every initiative that can help put the family once more at the heart of our pastoral and social commitment.
Pope Francis
4 STEPS TO TAKE
Activate a process of dialogue and greater collaboration between university centers of study and research dealing with family issues
Creating greater synergy in content and objectives between Christian communities and Catholic Universities
Fostering the culture of the family and of life in society so that proposals and objectives useful for public policies may emerge
Harmonise and support the proposals that emerged so that the service to the family is enriched and supported
THE LOGO
The logo that accompanies the Family Global Compact is the graphic representation of the vision, mission and values that the Global Compact seeks to express.
It consists of three elements: a network, a family and a cross.
Institutes and Centers for the Family that join the Family Global Compact can request the official logo by writing to: info@familyglobalcompact.org
NETWORK
The network is the worldwide network that ideally links the universities and university centres to which the Global Compact is proposed and which are inspired by the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church. At the same time, it represents the vision of a dynamic network between families – the subject and not the object of the Compact – and between the various actors in civil society, the economy, law and culture mobilised in favour of families.
FAMILY
The family, as the subject of the Family Global Compact, is at the centre of the logo. People represent a family that is the source and origin of social life inspired by solidarity and the development of the person.
Human life, on the other hand, is represented by the pregnant woman, to deepen the theme of nascent life and care for every human life.
Generativity is also an image of a new time that we wish to promote by adhering to the Global Compact: a common commitment to foster the leading role of the family in the economy, in society, in the development of the human person and the common good.
CROSS
The Christian cross is the representation of the values that drive the Family Global Compact.
It is a symbol of hope, love and the future. Pope Francis in his Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, points the way: ‘the welfare of the family is decisive for the future of the world and that of the Church’ (AL, 31).
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