News from the Church in Malta
The US-Mexico border in Arizona. Credit: Chess Ocampo/Shutterstock.
On Tuesday evening, US President Donald Trump highlighted humanitarian problems present along the US-Mexico border and issued a call for increased security, including the construction of additional barriers on the border. His remarks were met with mixed reactions and frustration from Catholics across the United States…
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Direttur: Yorgos Lanthimos
Atturi: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn, Mark Gatiss u James Smith
Ħin tal-Film: 120 min
Maħruġ minn KRS Releasing Ltd
KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA: 15
KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA: 18
Fl-1708, waqt li l-pajjiż Brittaniku kien jinsab fi gwerra kontra Franza, ir-Reġina Anne kienet tinsab tirrenja fuq in-nazzjon…
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Direttur: Jon S.Baird
Atturi: Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Danny Huston, Nina Arianda, Rufus Jones u Susy Kane
Ħin tal-Film: 97 min
Maħruġ minn KRS Relasing Ltd
KLASSIFIKA TAĊ-ĊENSURA: U
KLASSIFIKA TAL-KNISJA: PG
Stan u Ollie kienu żewġ kumidjanti li baqghu magħrufa tul iż-żminijiet…
COMECE welcomes the solution reached today among some EU member states, with the intervention of the EU, that have accepted to receive some migrants who were for days stranded at sea, rescued and brought to a Maltese harbour.
The deep concern expressed by the Bishops’ Conference from Malta with regards to the situation of these migrants is shared by COMECE: we can’t remain “deaf to the cry of those suffer” as “we are called to make compassion, love, mercy and solidarity a true way of life, a rule of conduct in our relationships with one another.”
However, the efforts made by the Catholic Church and civil society in welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating migrants can’t substitute governments’ responsibility to ensure that newcomers are rescued when stranded at sea, brought to a safe place, treated in a humane way and provided with the necessary assistance…
First Reading: 1 John 4, 19 -5,4
Psalm: 71 (72), 2.14 & 15bc.17
Gospel: Lk 4, 14-22a
Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news of him spread throughout the whole region. He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all. He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day…
The Bishops of Malta and Gozo express their appreciation to the Government of Malta, the European Commission and the eight European countries, for the solidarity finally shown with the 49 migrants, most of which were stranded at sea for 18 days onboard two NGO rescue vessels. We are also grateful to all the organisations that have promoted concrete solidarity with the people involved…
We are appalled beyond words that, after 18 days of negotiations, 49 men, women and children remain stuck on a boat within sight of the Maltese shore. In spite of countless calls for solidarity, European Member States have not managed to find a diplomatic solution to the current impasse.
This is nothing short of tragic and shameful…
First Reading: 1 John 4, 11-18
Psalm: 71 (72), 2.10-11.12-13
Gospel: Mk 6, 45-52
After the five thousand had eaten and were satisfied, Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and precede him to the other side toward Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. And when he had taken leave of them, he went off to the mountain to pray…
It’s been 137 years since Friedrich Nietzsche has published his book The Gay Science or The Joyful Wisdom wherein he first declared that “God is Dead”, an idea which he repeated a few years later in his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra. How could Nietzsche declare the death of someone in whose existence he never believed? …
Pope Francis says that those who care for the sick and give of themselves with generosity and straightforward love – like St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta – are amongst the Church’s most credible evangelizers.
In his message for the World Day of the Sick, celebrated on 11 February, the Pope focused on Jesus’s words to the Apostles: “You received without payment; give without payment” (Mt 10:8)…
