Monthly Archives: May 2018

Pope Francis calls for truth in the age of fake news

Message of His Holiness Pope Francis on the 52nd World Communications Day

13/05/2018

  • Every year on the Sunday before Pentecost the Church marks World Communications Day to celebrate the achievements of the media and to focus of how communications can best be used to promote gospel values. In the lead-up to this Sunday’s 52nd World Communications Day, Pope Francis released a message entitled “The Truth will set you free. Fake news and journalism for peace.”

  • Dear Brothers and Sisters,

    Communication is part of God’s plan for us and an essential way to experience fellowship…

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Truth that leads to peace

13/05/2018

  • Emails, phone calls, text messages and social media are all competing for our attention in order to exert their influence on us. Media is constantly imparting information that at times is correct but at other times is manipulated or even fake (fake news).

    In his message for World Communications Day (13.05.18), Pope Francis writes that “the most radical antidote to the virus of falsehood is purification by the truth.” For us Christians can only mean that we rely solely on the One who is true, the living God…

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The Alphabet of Creation

13/05/2018

  • The desire for children is a sacred one, and every effort made to help infertile couples embrace their own children must be praised and blessed. The dignity of this process of conception and birth demands that they are the fruit of the love between the biological father and mother of the child. When we start talking about men and women who donate their reproductive cells to third parties, we are destroying this essential union…

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The Sunday Gospel: 13th May

13/05/2018

  • Ascension of the Lord – Solemnity

    Saint Mark 16:15-20 

    Jesus said to the eleven: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages. They will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them…

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The Gospel of the day: 12th May

12/05/2018

  • Saturday of the Sixth week of Easter

    Saint John 16:23b-28 

    Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete. I have told you this in figures of speech…

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May you grow and always be thankful for the all the wealth, information, and education you receive from this place – The Archbishop to the students of St Ignatius College, Tal-Ħandaq

The Archbishop celebrates Mass marking the 10th annivesary of St Ignatius College, Tal-Ħandaq

11/05/2018
  • L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna

  • Kulleġġ San Injazju, Tal-Ħandaq
    9 ta’ Mejju 2018

    Fis-Salm Responsorjali għedna flimkien din is-silta: “Għallimni Mulej, it-triq tal-kmandamenti tiegħek” (S119, 33). Il-kmandamenti ta’ Alla huma l-liġi taċ-ċiviltà, b’ħafna minnhom insibuhom ukoll fl-eqdem ċivilizzazzjonijiet: la tisraqx, la toqtolx, la tigdibx, la tisraqx il-mara ta’ ħaddieħor, weġġah lil ommok u ’l missierek (jiġifieri urihom rispett)…

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“May you not only care for the beauty of this physical temple, but also build the temple that is the community” – The Archbishop to the new Archpriest of Vittoriosa

Mass on the installation of Fr Carm Busuttil as the new Archpriest of St Lawrence Parish in Vittoriosa

11/05/2018
  • L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna

  • Knisja Parrokkjali, il-Birgu
    29 ta’ April 2018

    Għażiż Kanonku Arċipriet, ippermettili li f’din il-ġurnata għażiża naqsam miegħek ftit ħsibijiet ispirati minn din il-Kelma ta’ Alla li għadna kemm smajna, b’mod speċjali l-Evanġelju li inti għadek kemm ħabbartilna.

    Qabel xejn, nixtieq insellem lill-mistednin distinti tiegħek b’mod partikolari lir-rispettabbli Sindku tal-Birgu imma hawn diversi rispettabbli sindki oħrajn li jirrapreżentaw is-soċjetà ċivili…

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Sherlock Gnomes

11/05/2018

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    Direttur:          John Stevenson

    Ilħna:               James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mary J. Blige u Johnny Depp

    Ħin tal-Film:    88 min

    Maħruġ minn KRS Releasing Ltd

    KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA:                 U

    KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA:                       PG

    Sherlock Gnomes u l-assistent tiegħu, Gnome Watson jassaltaw mużew fejn in-nemesi, torta maskot bl-isem ta’ Moriarty, kien qiegħed iżomm ostaġġi numru ta’ Gnomes bi pjan li jfarrakkhom kollha…

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Breaking In

11/05/2018

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    Direttur:          James McTeigue

    Atturi:              Gabrielle Union, Billy Burke, Richad Cabral, Ajiona Alexus, Levi Meaden, Seth Carr, Mark Furze, Jason George, Christa Miller u Damien Leake

    Ħin tal-Film:    88 min

    Maħruġ minn KRS Releasing Ltd

    KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA:                 15

    KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA:                       15

    Missier Shaun Russell waqt li kien qiegħed jaqsam it-triq hekk kif kien qiegħed itemm il-ġirja tas-soltu, jintlaqat minn karozza…

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Pope appeals to young people in Sicily to resist the call of the mafia

11/05/2018

  • In a telegramme addressed to the Archbishop of Agrigento in Sicily on Wednesday evening, Pope Francis marked the 25th anniversary of Saint Pope John Paul II’s visit to the town of Agrigento where he denounced the mafia’s organized criminal activities and called on ‘mafiosi’ criminals to convert.

    In his message the Pope recalled that St. John Paul II’s prophetic appeal came at the end of Holy Mass on 9 May 1993, celebrated in the famous archaeological site of the Valley of Temples in Agrigento, and said that he too, on this important anniversary, has an appeal for young people today to resist the call of organized crime…

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