Roberto Pasolini is responsible for preaching in the Vatican during Lent and Advent. Photo: Vatican News

«Adoption Is Not a ‘Plan B’, It’s a True Vocation»: Young Influencers Who Bet on Adoption

We are experiencing this time as a «pregnancy of the heart,» a little longer than usual. Furthermore, we don’t know if it will be a boy or a girl, a baby or an older child, what features it will have… and this allows us to wait without labelling, loving without limits. In this process, we also consciously prepare for the arrival and, above all, we care for and strengthen our marriage, because it will be the pillar of the family that God entrusts to us.

What Is the Difference Between the Holy See, Vatican City, and the Roman Curia? Cardinal Ghirlanda Explains

Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda, Jesuit, Canonist, and Professor Emeritus of the Pontifical Gregorian University, former Rector of the Athenaeum, and Consultant to numerous Vatican Dicasteries, offers a detailed and in-depth reflection on the meaning of three closely related yet distinct terms in their scope and legal and even diplomatic definition.