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 »

World Youth Day Opening Ceremony, 24 January 2019  (Vatican Media)

What are the great ideals but also the tangible ways to advance for those who wish to build a more just and fraternal world in their ordinary relationships, in social life, politics and institutions? This is mainly the question that “Fratelli tutti” is intended to answer: the Pope describes it as a “Social Encyclical” (6) which borrows the title of the “Admonitions” of Saint Francis of Assisi, who used these words to “address his brothers and sisters and proposed to them a way of life marked by the flavour of the Gospel” (1)… Read more »

Pope Francis went on Saturday to Assisi for the fifth time during his pontificate. There he signed his new Encyclical Fratelli tutti, before the tomb of St Francis of Assisi, after celebrating Holy Mass.

The Encyclical on fraternity and social friendship was inspired by St Francis, as was the Pope’s second Encyclical, Laudato si’, on the care of our common home, published five years ago… Read more »

Hija x-xewqa tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna li matul ix-xahar ta’ Ottubru jingħad kuljum ir-rużarju quddiem Ġesù Sagramentat espost fil-knejjes fejn tinżamm l-Ewkaristija u wara tingħata l-Barka Sagramentali.

Naturalment, hu importanti li f’dan ukoll kulħadd isegwi l-miżuri preżenti għall-ħarsien tal-ħajja u tas-saħħa ta’ kulħadd, b’mod partikulari s-sanitisation, id-distanza soċjali u l-użu tal-maskra jew visor.

Tkun ħaġa sabiħa wkoll li matul dan ix-xahar tingħad, b’ħeġġa u devozzjoni, it-talba tar-rużarju fil-familja… Read more »

The Catholic Churches in Europe suffered serious losses as a result of the pandemic: 400 priests and elderly religious died during the darkest months of the Coronavirus outbreak in Europe, sowing sickness and death. The estimated death toll is contained in a comprehensive report compiled by the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE), providing an overview of the Church’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic… Read more »