Pope in Sunday's audience

Healing was the theme of Pope Benedict’s weekly Angelus address, delivered this morning in St. Peter’s Square. The Holy Father spoke about today’s Gospel, which relates how a leper had come to Christ, saying “If you wish, you can make me clean.” Jesus replied, saying, “I do will it, be made clean.”

“In that gesture and in those words of Christ,” the Pope said, “is the whole history of salvation, there is embodied the will of God to heal, to cleanse us from the evil that disfigures us and destroys our relationships”… Read more »

On Sunday 5th February 2012, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. celebrated Mass at St Julian’s Parish Church, as the official opening of his pastoral visit to the parish.

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A four day symposium at Rome’s Gregorian University entitled ‘Towards Healing and Renewal’ concludes on Thursday with the launch of an internet portal in English, Spanish, Italian and German, providing information and training for all those dealing with child protection in the Church.

Participants at the meeting included representatives of bishops’ conferences from over 100 countries around the world, as well as seminary rectors and heads of male and female religious congregations… Read more »

Lent

In the Holy See Press Office, a press conference was held to present the Holy Father’s 2012 Lenten Message. Participating in the conference were Cardinal Robert Sarah, president of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum”; Msgr. Giampietro Dal Toso and Msgr. Segundo Tejado Munoz, respectively secretary and under secretary of the same council.

“We know that the Lenten Message contributes to maintaining the faithful’s sense of concern for others, communion, compassion and fraternal sharing of the sufferings of those in need”, said Cardinal Sarah… Read more »

On Thursday 9th February 2012, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P.  addressed His Eminence Cardinal Agostino Vallini, Vicar of Rome, and a group of bishops and priests, at Mosta Parish Church, prior to praying Lauds. Cardinal Vallini arrived in Malta on Tuesday 7th February leading four bishops and 150 priests from the diocese of Rome on a Pauline Pilgrimage.

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On Wednesday 8th February 2012, Mgr Prospero Grech O.S.A., Cardinal Elect, was ordained Archbishop at St John’s Cocathedral in Valletta. Mgr Grech was consecrated by Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. and was given the title of Titular Archbishop of St Leone (Italy). The co-concelebrant bishops of the episcopal ordination were Mgr Giuseppe Versaldi, Archbishop and President of the Prefecture of Economical Affairs of the Vatican, and Mgr Mario Grech, Bishop of Gozo… Read more »