Yearly Archives: 2012

UNAIDS CHIEF MEETS POPE TO DISCUSS EFFORTS TO PREVENT HIV IN CHILDREN

13/04/2012

Michel Sidibé, DG UNAIDS

Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS, met Pope Benedict XVI and other Vatican officials April 11, seeking greater collaboration to prevent HIV infection among children by 2015. Preventing mother-to-child transmission of the HIV virus and keeping children free from HIV is an achievable goal, Sidibe told the pope, according to a press release from UNAIDS. “Millions of people around the world living with and affected by HIV are being supported by Catholic health care organizations,” Sidibe said… Read more »

World Youth Day Concert

12/04/2012

“Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4). This is the verse from the Bible that Pope Benedict XVI has chosen for youths to reflect upon during this year; it is also the theme chosen for this year’s local World Youth Day Concert. This is a concert with a difference, a feast of live music for youths and by youths, a celebration of joy, faith and music… Read more »

POPE: PEACE OF CHRIST FOR EVERYONE

12/04/2012

VATICAN-Pope in audience

The Holy Father dedicated his catechesis during this morning’s general audience to the transformation which Jesus’ Resurrection brought about in His disciples, also reflecting on the meaning that Easter has for Christians today. Faith in the Risen One, he said, “transforms our lives; it frees them from fear, gives them firm hope, and infuses them with something that provides existence with full meaning: the love of God”… Read more »

20 IMPORTANT FIGURES FOR POPE BENEDICT XVI

11/04/2012

On 19 April 2005, three days after his 78th birthday, the Cardinals gathered in Conclave in the Sistine Chapel elected as head of the Church Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.  He took the name of Benedict. On 16 April 2012, Pope Benedict XVI will be 85 years old and will have completed the seventh year of his ministry as Successor of Peter… Read more »

GENSILLUM LOOKS INTO THE DISCUSSION ABOUT ASSISTED PROCREATION

11/04/2012

Kien kumment li ta fi Frar li għadda Dr Thomas W Hilgers, Fundatur u Direttur tal- Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction, li jinsab f’Omaha, Nebraska, fl-Istati Uniti, u li fih sostna li t-teknoloġija tal-Fertilizzazzjoni In-Vitro, jew l-IVF, hi “highly abortive”, li reġa’ fetaħ d-diskussjoni f’pajjiżna dwar it-tnissil assistit fil-kamp xjentifiku tal-infertilità.

Nhar il-Ġimgħa li għadda, imbagħad, festa tad-Dulur ta’ Marija, l-Isqof t’Għawdex Mons Mario Grech, waqt l-omelija li għamel espona r-realtà tat-tbatija tal-omm li ma jistax ikollha tfal, f’relazzjoni mal-misteru tal-ħajja… Read more »

CELEBRATION OF CARMELITE PROVINCIAL CHAPTER

11/04/2012

On Monday, April 9, 2012, the Carmelite Friars of the Maltese Carmelite Province met at the ‘Lunzjata’ Retreat House in Rabat to celebrate their Provincial Chapter.  The Provincial Chapter, which takes place every three years, is presided over by the Prior General of the Carmelite Order Fr Fernando Millán Romeral, and is due to end on Friday, April 13, 2012. Fr John Keating, General Counsellor, is accompanying the Priory General during the Chapter… Read more »

ARCHBISHOP FITZGERALD: “IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO GIVE UP VIOLENCE”

10/04/2012

Syria-violence

“Its never too late to give up violence”, says Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald, nuncio to Egypt and the Cairo based League of Arab States, referring to the Syrian crisis. On Monday Syria pledged to withdraw all military units from towns by April 10 to pave the way for a ceasefire with rebels two days later, as part of a U.N.-Arab League peace plan brokered by envoy Kofi Annan… Read more »

PRIESTS CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY FROM THEIR ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD

10/04/2012

On Monday 9th April 2012, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. celebrated Mass with priests who were celebrating their 50th anniversary from their ordination to the priesthood, at St. John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta. These are Mgr Vincenz Deguara, Fr Vincent Deguara, Fr Maurice Mifsud, Mgr Joseph Grech Cremona, Mgr Guzepp Mifsud Bonnici, Can. John Ciarlo, Fr Guzepp Berry, Mgr Joe Carabott, Mgr Alfred Micallef, Mgr Joseph Busuttil, Mgr Lawrence Gatt, Mgr Joseph Pace, Mgr Can… Read more »

POPE APPEALS FOR PEACE DURING EASTER URBI ET ORBI

09/04/2012

Pope on Easter Sunday

Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass this Easter Sunday in St Peter’s Square, after which he offered the urbi et orbi benediction – the blessing of the city and the world – which it is tradition for the Pope to give at Easter and at Christmas. The Holy Father delivered remarks to the faithful gathered in the square, focusing on the radical and permanent novelty of Christ’s resurrection… Read more »

April 9 – 15

08/04/2012

Monday

6.00 p.m. The Archbishop celebrates Mass with priests who are celebrating their 50th anniversary from their ordination to the priesthood, at St. John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta.

Tuesday

9.30 a.m. The Archbishop presides over a meeting of the Episcopal Conference.

5.00 p.m. The Archbishop meets participants attending the International Congress for Catechists, at his residence in Attard.

6.30 p.m… Read more »