News from the Church in Malta
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
On Friday 22nd January, 2011, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. met the Youth and Adolescent Commission of Zabbar parish. He also met with the Youth Parish Commission of the same parish.
Click on the photo to enlarge… Read more »
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 »
On Monday, 24th January, 2011 at 4.00 p.m, the funeral cortege will leave Mater Dei Hospital for the parish of Zejtun, where Archbishop Gerada used to reside. At 4.30 p.m. it will arrive at Carlo Diacono square and make its way towards the Oratory (near the Parish Church) . The cortege will be made up of clergy, religious and social movements. There will be prayers for the repose of the soul of Mgr… Read more »
