The Office of Papal Charities in the Vatican has received a building in Rome from a women’s religious congregation for free use to shelter migrants and refugees arriving in Italy. 

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Apostolic Almoner, or the Pope’s official almsgiver, released a statement on Monday saying the Sisters Servants of Divine Providence of Catania were responding to the “invitation of Pope Francis, who in the Encyclical Fratelli tutti repeats several times the need for adequate hospitality to migrants fleeing wars, persecutions and natural catastrophes”. 

Through the Office of Papal Charities, the Sisters have lent their building on Via della Pisana (Pisana Road) to the Pope for free use… Read more »

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Good afternoon!

With the narrative of the Parable of the Wedding Banquet, in today’s Gospel passage (cf. Mt 22:1-14), Jesus outlines the plan that God envisaged for humanity. The king who “who gave a marriage feast for his son” (v. 2) is the image of the Father who prepared for the entire human family a wonderful celebration of love and communion around his only begotten Son… Read more »

L-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna u l-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi, illum is-Sibt 10 ta’ Ottubru, laqgħu lill-Kap tal-Oppożizzjoni Dr Bernard Grech u lis-Sinjura Grech, għal żjara ta’ korteżija, fil-Kurja tal-Arċisqof, il-Furjana.

Il-messaġġ tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna

L-ewwel nett nifraħlek u nawguralek rispett. Nixtieq ukoll nawguralek il-ħidma t-tajba anke jekk mhux bħala Kap tal-Oppożizzjoni. Ir-rwol tiegħek huwa essenzjali fid-demokrazija, bħalma qallek ukoll il-President tar-Repubblika Dott… Read more »

It is a task which is “particularly dear to my heart”, carried out “to promote a ‘clean finance’, in which the ‘merchants’ are prevented from speculating in that sacred ‘temple’ which is humanity.”

Pope Francis made that remark on Thursday in an address to the evaluators of the Moneyval Programme.

The Committee of the Council of Europe arrived in the Vatican on 30 September to evaluate measures against money laundering and financing of terrorism… Read more »

A homeless person in the heart of Rome 

Fratelli tutti is “a devastating challenge to our ecological, political, economic and social life”, but above all, it is the “proclamation of an ineradicable, joyful truth, presented as a well-spring for a fatigued world.”

This is according to Professor Anna Rowlands, a renowned political theologian and member of the panel that presented Pope Francis’ third Encyclical in the Vatican’s new Synod Hall on Sunday… Read more »

Fl-aħħar jiem, Patri Charlò Camilleri u Patri Glen Attard ippublikaw żewġ kotba ġodda.

L-ewwel ktieb hu Monastikon bl-isem ta’ Vinea Carmeli: Carmelite Priories and their Churches in Malta (Horizons, 2020, 142 paġna). F’din il-pubblikazzjoni, iż-żewġ letturi fil-Fakultà tat-Teoloġija fl-Università ta’ Malta, flimkien mas-Sinjura Rita Vella Brincat, alumna tal-istess Fakultà, jesploraw it-twaqqif tal-kunventi Karmelitani matul is-sekli, u t-teżori artistiċi li jinsabu fil-knejjes tagħhom… Read more »