Yearly Archives: 2011

VATICAN DOCUMENT CALLS FOR GLOBAL AUTHORITY TO REGULATE MARKETS

Financial Markets

A Vatican document called for the gradual creation of a world political authority with broad powers to regulate financial markets and rein in the “inequalities and distortions of capitalist development.” The document said the current global financial crisis has revealed “selfishness, collective greed and the hoarding of goods on a great scale.” A supranational authority, it said, is needed to place the common good at the center of international economic activity… Read more »

SEMINAR BY THE PASTORAL COMMISSION AMONG WORKERS

Il-Kummissjoni Pastorali fid-Dinja tax-xogħol se torganizza nofs ta’ nhar seminar f’Dar l-Ewropa, Valletta, nhar l-Erbgħa 26 ta’ Ottubru 2011. Peress li din is-sena hija ddedikata lil volontarjat, dan is-seminar ser jiffoka fuq kif din it-tema torbot mad-dinja tax-xogħol.

Il-Kummissjoni, f’Lulju li għadda, ħarġet paper fuq ‘Min iħaddem u x-xogħol volontarju (Employers and Voluntary Work) li titkellem fuq kif il-Knisja tħares lejn ix-xogħol volontarju fid-dinja tax-xogħol, u anke xi suġġerimenti ta’ kif min iħaddem jista’ jippromwovi l-ħidma volontarja… Read more »

MR JOSEPH CREMONA, FATHER OF THE ARCHBISHOP, HAS PASSED AWAY

Illum il-Ħadd, 23 ta’ Ottubru 2011 fis-7.10 p.m., fid-Dar Santa Katarina, Ħ’Attard, fejn kien rikoverat, is-Sur Joseph M. Cremona, missier l-Eċċellenza Tiegħu Monsinjur Arċisqof Pawlu Cremona O.P., irritorna lejn il-Ħallieq fl-eta’ ta’ 95 sena. Gawduh f’ħajtu: martu Josephine nee’ Cauchi, ibnu l-ieħor Carmel (k/a Lino) u martu Mary Helen u bintu Marie Louise, in-neputijiet Marco u martu Joanne, Stefano u martu Nicolette u Johann, kif ukoll il-pro-neputijiet Luigi, Gianluca, Lara u Sam… Read more »

THE HOLY SEE AND LIBYA AFTER THE DEATH OF COLONEL GADDAFI

Given below is the text of an English-language note published yesterday afternoon by the Holy See Press Office on the subject of the Holy See and Libya following the death of Colonel Gaddafi.

“The news of the death of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi marks the end of a much too long and tragic phase of a brutal struggle to bring down a harsh and oppressive regime… Read more »

OVER 300 MALTESE PRIESTS AND 90 LAY PEOPLE IN MISSIONARY WORK

Minn stħarriġ li għamlet Il-ĠENSillum online jirriżulta li bħalissa f’għadd ta’ pajjiżi fid-dinja, 318 saċerdot Malti u Għawdxi u 90 lajk huma impenjati f’ħidma pastorali, soċjali, edukattiva u ta’ karità. Fost dawn hemm tmien Isqfijiet Maltin, tnejn fil-Brażil, tnejn oħra fil-Ħonduras, u oħrajn fil-Kenja, l-Albanija, l-Libja u s-Sri Lanka.

Malta għandha wkoll ħames saċerdoti li qegħdin iwettqu ħidma għas-Santa Sede. Barra dawn is-saċerdoti u lajċi Maltin impenjati barra minn pajjiżna, għadd ta’ sorijiet Maltin qed iwettqu ħidma diversa f’artijiet tal-missjoni… Read more »

October 24-30

Monday

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

4.30 p.m. The Archbishop meets the children who attend catechism at San Duminku catechism centre, Rabat, as part of his pastoral visit to this parish.

6.00 p.m. The Archbishop meets the young boys who attend catechism in the boys’ section of the MUSEUM, Rabat… Read more »

NEW PUBLICATION BY POPE BENEDICT XVI PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT GEORGE ABELA

On Friday 21st Ocotber 2011, Mgr Tommaso Caputo, Apostolic Nuncio and  Fr Paul Darmanin presented President George Abela the Maltese translation of the book  ‘Jesus of Nazareth Vol II’ written by Pope Benedict XVI. The presentation ceremony was held  at San Anton Palace, Attard.

Photo Credit:  DOI – Clifton Fenech Read more »

THE SACRIFICE OF THE EUCHARIST

This DVD concentrates  on what it means to call Christ the’Lamb of God’. Tony Mahoney researched the subject in the Old and New Testament with the help of some very good books, and put the material together in a beautiful and telling way.

Responsible for the production were: Joe Gatt for originating the idea of a five minute Catechesis before the Saturday / Sunday Masses; Tony Mahoney  for the text, for the choice of music, and for the reading; Peter Gatt for the research done for the illustrations and graphics;  Patrick Spiteri for the artistic photos of the Mass; Marika Gatt for the sound recording and for the overall professional eye; and Kurt Mahoney for the Lightscribing… Read more »

ARCHBISHOP VISITS RABAT CATECHISM CENTRE AND COMMUNITIES OF SISTERS

On Wednesday 19th October 2011, Archishop Paul Cremona O.P. met the children who attended catechism at the Catechism Centre in Baħrija.

On Thursday 20th October 2011, the Archbishop met the Community of the Sisters of St.Dorothy and later on he met the Community of the Children of the Sacred Heart, in Rabat.

Agħfas fuq ir-ritratti biex tkabbar… Read more »