Monthly Archives: January 2011

ARCHBISHOP VISITS ZABBAR PRIMARY SCHOOL ‘A’

26/01/2011

On Thursday 20th January 2011, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. visited St. Margaret College, Zabbar Primary ‘A’. The school has a population of 468, comprising children from Kindergarten I to Year 2. Zabbar Parish Priest, Fr Sebastian Caruana, and the College Principal, Mr Stephen Cachia, accompanied the Archbishop. On entering the school playground the Archbishop was welcomed by the children who waved Maltese and Vatican City flags… Read more »

CELEBRATIONS TO BE PRESIDED BY THE POPE: FEBRUARY-APRIL

26/01/2011

The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff yesterday published the calendar of celebrations due to be presided by the Holy Father between February and April.

FEBRUARY

Wednesday 2: Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and the World Day of Consecrated Life. At 5.30 p.m. in the Vatican Basilica, Vespers with members of institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life… Read more »

CATHOLIC MEDIA WORKERS: LIVE IN CONFORMITY TO THE GOSPEL

25/01/2011

Yesterday in the Holy See Press Office, the Message for the forty-fifth World Day of Social Communications was presented. Its theme this year is: “Truth, Proclamation and Authenticity of Life in the Digital Age”. Participating in yesterday’s press conference were Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, Msgr. Paul Tighe, Msgr. Giuseppe Antonio Scotti and Angelo Scelzo, respectively president, secretary, adjunct secretary and under secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications… Read more »

ANNIVERSARY OF THE EPISCOPAL ORDINATION OF ARCHBISHOP PAUL CREMONA

24/01/2011

On the occasion of the fourth anniversary if his Episcopal Ordination, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. will be celebrating a Thanksgiving Mass at St. John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta, on Sunday, 30th January 2011, at 5:30 p.m. Priests are invited to concelebrated, and everyone is invited to attend.

On Tuesday 25th January, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. will be celebrating his 65th Birthday. Mgr. Cremona was born in 1946… Read more »

CHURCH SCHOOL ENTRY REGULATIONS UPDATED

24/01/2011

The regulations for entry into Church schools have been updated since they were first published in December 2010.

Recently a decision to re-organise some of the Church’s Kindergarten schools was taken by Church School officials and the Heads of the Church Kindergarten schools.  This has resulted in 32 boys and 33 girls less vacancies in Kindergarten 1 and 31 boys and 32 girls more vacancies in Kindergarten 2… Read more »

INCONSISTENCY

24/01/2011

Il-kontorni tad-dibattitu nazzjonali dwar jekk f’Malta għandhiex tiddaħħal leġiżlazzjoni li tippermetti lill-koppji miżżewġin biex jiddivorzjaw, kulma jmur qed jiffurmaw irwieħhom.

Fl-aħħar ħmistax rajna l-ewwel it-twaqqif tal-moviment ‘Żwieġ bla Divorzju’, moviment li jsostni li d-dħul tad-divorzju mhix għażla għaqlija hekk kif dan ibiddel in-natura taż-żwieġ. Sussegwentement, il-‘Moviment Iva Għad-Divorzju’ nieda l-logo tiegħu li jġib il-kliem: ‘Iva għad-Divorzju, Iva għaż-Żwieġ’.

Irridu nistqarru li l-logo magħżul mill-moviment favur id-dħul tad-divorzju f’Malta għalina jqajjem għadd ta’ mistoqsijiet li jitolbu tweġiba, primarjament dwar il-konsistenza bejn iż-żewġ frażijiet li jikkomponu dan l-istess logo… Read more »

EGYPT ISLAM CENTER FREEZES DIALOGUE WITH VATICAN

24/01/2011

The Islamic Research Council of the University of al-Azhar, the highest authority of Sunni Islam, is freezing dialogue with the Vatican in protest of Benedict XVI’s defense of Christians in Egypt.

This is the latest development in relations between Egypt and the Vatican that have become strained in the wake of a Jan. 1 attack on a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, which caused the death of more than 20 people leaving the Divine Liturgy… Read more »

January 24 – 30

23/01/2011

Monday

9.00 a.m. The Archbishop receives Archbishop Bakhomious, fisrt assistant of His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, at his residence, Attard.

9.30 a.m. The Archbishop presides over a Curia senior staff meeting.

4.30 p.m. The Archbishop visits the Sisters and residents of St. Joseph Home, Zabbar.

6.00 p.m… Read more »

POPE MAKES MORAL APPEAL TO ITALIAN PUBLIC OFFICIALS

22/01/2011

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI has said public officials must offer a strong moral example, his first apparent comment on the sex scandal engulfing Italy’s PM.

Though Silvio Berlusconi’s name was not explicitly mentioned, the Pope’s words echo those of a senior Vatican official who said the issue was troubling.

Mr Berlusconi’s lawyers have said he will not attend questioning on charges that he paid for sex with a minor… Read more »