Yearly Archives: 2018

Joint statement by the Secretariat for Catholic Education and the UPE

22/10/2018

  • A meeting was held on Friday 19th October 2018, between the Secretariat for Catholic Education and the Union for Professional Educators (UPE). Both parties clarified that when issues arise, the UPE will first contact the head of school and both parties will address the matter. If the issue is not resolved, the UPE will then contact the Secretariat which will work with the school and the UPE to resolve the issue.

    In view of this development, the Secretariat is initiating legal procedures to withdraw the inhibitory injunction and the UPE is withdrawing its directives in Church schools with immediate effect…

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Pope appoints Nobel Physics laureate as member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences

22/10/2018

  • Pope Francis has appointed Steven Chu, professor of physics and molecular and cellular physiology at Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, as an ordinary member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

    The Academy, headquartered inside Vatican City, was established in 1936 by Pope Pius XI.

    The work of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences comprises six major areas: fundamental science; science and technology of global problems; science for the problems of the developing world; scientific policy; bioethics; epistemology…

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The Gospel of the day: 22nd October

22/10/2018

  • Saint Luke 12:13-21 

    Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.” 

    Then he told them a parable…

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A message by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna on Mission Sunday

21/10/2018

  • Din is-sena, il-Ġurnata Missjunarja qed tiġi ċċelebrata fix-xahar ta’ Ottubru meta l-isqfijiet ta’ madwar id-dinja jinsabu miġburin fil-Vatikan mal-Papa Franġisku jitolbu u jiddixxernu dwar tema importanti ħafna: iż-żgħażagħ, il-vokazzjonijiet u d-dixxerniment.

    Nixtieq li l-messaġġ tiegħi għal din il-ġurnata missjunarja ta’ din is-sena jkun maqgħud ma’ din l-esperjenza ekkleżjali qawwija. Il-Papa stess fil-messaġġ li offra għal din il-ġurnata missjunarja jfakkar li ż-żgħażagħ huma wkoll imsejħa għall-vokazzjoni missjunarja fl-ambjent tagħhom: fl-ambjent tal-istudju, tad-divertiment, tal-arti u tal-kultura…

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The Sunday Gospel: 21st October

21/10/2018

  • The Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mission Sunday

    Saint Mark 10:35-45 

    Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” He replied, “What do you wish me to do for you?” They answered him, “Grant that in your glory we may sit one at your right and the other at your left.” Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking…

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1.2 billion Catholics; 116,000 seminarians; 5,000 hospitals: Some of the Church’s numbers on Mission Sunday

A look at some interesting Church statistics and comparisons by continent

20/10/2018

  • This Sunday, October 21, is World Mission Day, and as every year on this occasion, the Fides News Service provides statistics to give a panorama of the missionary Church all over the world.

    The numbers are taken from the Church’s Book of Statistics, (updated to the end of 2016).

    For those who like to consider the numbers, these statistics show interesting data such as:

    The world population at the end of 2016 was 7,352,289,000 while Catholics in the world numbered 1,299,059,000, showing an increase of 14,249,000…

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17,000 children from Malta and Gozo pray together for unity and peace

20/10/2018

  • 17,000 tifel u tifla minn Malta u Għawdex ingħaqdu ma’ aktar minn miljun tifel u tifla oħra minn madwar id-dinja fejn talbu r-Rużarju Mqaddes għall-għaqda u l-paċi. Dan kien l-akbar numru ta’ konkorrenza sa mill-bidu ta’ din l-inizjattiva f’Malta, 4 snin ilu. Is-sena l-oħra pparteċipaw 14,000. Din il-kampanja qed tkompli tikseb aktar parteċipazzjoni, mhux biss f’Malta iżda madwar id-dinja kollha wkoll…

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The Gospel of the day: 20th October

20/10/2018

  • Saint Luke 12:8-12 

    Jesus said to his disciples: “I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before others the Son of Man will acknowledge before the angels of God. But whoever denies me before others will be denied before the angels of God. 

    Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. When they take you before synagogues and before rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what your defense will be or about what you are to say. For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you should say.”

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A new Maestro di Cappella for the Metropolitan Cathedral

19/10/2018

    • L-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta ħatret lis-Surmast Christopher Muscat bħala l-Maestro di Cappella tal-Katidral Metropolitan. L-irwol tal-Maestro di Cappella hu li jipprepara u jidderieġi l-mużika u l-kor fiċ-ċelebrazzjonijiet liturġiċi fil-Katidral ta’ San Pawl, l-Imdina, u fil-Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann, il-Belt Valletta, kif ukoll jippromwovi l-mużika liturġika fl-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta.

      Is-Surmast Christopher Muscat, li hu kompożitur u direttur, ilu involut fil-mużika sagra sa mill-età ta’ 10 snin meta kien membru tal-kor tal-Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann…

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Church Environment Commission appeals for national study on property

19/10/2018

  • Il-Kummissjoni Interdjoċesana Ambjent (KA) stiednet mill-ġdid lill-Gvern biex iniedi studju nazzjonali dwar il-proprjetà. Il-Kummissjoni għamlet dan l-appell f’ittra mibgħuta lill-Ministru tal-Finanzi Edward Scicluna, fejn talbet li din il-proposta tiġi kkunsidrata fil-Baġit għas-sena d-dieħla. Din hija t-tielet sena konsekuttiva li l-KA qed tagħmel din it-talba lill-Gvern.

    Il-kummissjoni tqis li l-ħtieġa għal dan l-istudju hija urġenti hekk kif is-sitwazzjoni tal-proprjetà saret iktar serja mill-aspett soċjo-ambjentali…

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