Dix ans après Amoris laetitia : ce que l’Église de France veut changer pour les familles
Moins administrer, davantage compter sur elles ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇬🇧 English summary Ten years after Amoris laetitia , the Catholic Church is reassessing its pastoral approach to marriage and family life. During a major Vatican meeting convened by Pope Leo XIV from 7 to 14 October 2026, France was represented in the discussions by Véronique Longchamp, national delegate for family pastoral care at the French Bishops’ Conference. Her message was clear: Christian families should no longer be considered merely recipients of pastoral programmes, but active participants in the Church’s mission. Among the proposals emerging from the French experience are greater involvement of married couples in marriage preparation, diversified support for young couples, diocesan “family houses”, stronger assistance for parents and a role for experienced couples in accompanying separated, divorced or remarried people. The challenge for the French Church is therefore not simply to defend the famil...