Of the 200 announced speakers, 91 are lay women, 65 are lay men and 44 are Clergy/Religious.
The largest group are couples. This a lay-led, couples-led program.
It is an international program, with speakers from all five main continents of the world.
Amoris Laetitia is the guiding theme of all three days of the Pastoral Congress and of all the topics chosen.
This is the first WMOF to have a specific workshop on Safeguarding Minors.
Other themes include:
* The future of Marriage preparation in Parishes.
* Finding new ways of the joy of commitment and sacramental marriage in today’s culture.
* The challenges of handing on faith in the home today.
* Finding new language to affirm the joy, beauty and goodness of sexual love within Marriage.
* The importance of solidarity between the generations in family.
* Exploring the impact of technology on the family.
* Exploring the key role of the family in caring for ‘our common home’, the earth.
* Looking at the relationship between business and the family.
* Exploring the relationship between sport and the family.
* What does Pope Francis mean by the ‘Throwaway Culture?’ (Address by Cardinal Tagle).
* The link between the family and the forthcoming Synod on Vocational Discernment.
* Looking at key challenges faced by many families today, including:
* Homelessness
* Addiction
* Domestic Violence
* Displacement as Migrants and Refugees.
* Disability.
* Separation and Divorce.
* Exploring how Parishes can support those families with members who identify as LGBTI+ (presentation by James Martin SJ)
* The joy of belonging to a family reflect in contemporary interest in our genealogies.
* The vocation of fatherhood in today’s world.
* There will be fun cookery demonstrations with faith and family themes.
Some additional speakers/panellists will be announced over coming weeks, particularly in the area of technology and the family and the family and sport.
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