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New parish priests for Gżira and Ħal Għaxaq parishes

11/10/2020

Kappillan ġdid għall-parroċċa tal-Gżira

L‑Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna ħatar lil Dun Gordon Refalo bħala kappillan tal‑parroċċa tal‑Madonna tal‑Karmnu, il‑Gżira.

Dun Gordon Refalo twieled Tas‑Sliema fit‑30 ta’ Novembru 1961. Huwa rċieva l‑edukazzjoni tiegħu fl‑iskola ta’ St Joseph, ir‑Rabat, u fil‑Kulleġġ San Alwiġi, Birkirkara. Kompla bl‑edukazzjoni terzjarja fil‑Fakultà tat‑Teoloġija fl‑Università ta’ Malta u ġie ordnat saċerdot fil‑5 ta’ Lulju 1991.

Dun Gordon serva bħala viċi kappillan fil‑parroċċa ta’ San Gejtanu, il‑Ħamrun, u wettaq ħidma pastorali fil‑parroċċa tan‑Naxxar… Read more »

Courtesy visit to the Bishops of Malta by the Leader of the Opposition

10/10/2020   Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

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 »

Support for people with mental health problems

Statement by the Bishops of Malta and Gozo on World Mental Health Day

09/10/2020

World Mental Health Day, which is observed on the 10th October, is an international day with the objective of raising awareness of mental health issues and mobilising efforts in support of mental health.

Facing mental health challenges may be very difficult for the persons involved and their families. Such issues still carry a great stigma. People with mental health problems may be seen as weak-willed and may come to believe this themselves… Read more »

Pope to Moneyval: Preventing merchants from speculating on humanity

09/10/2020

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 »

Regenerating the gardens at Id-Dar tal-Kleru with 1,400 new trees

08/10/2020   Birkirkara

L‑Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta qed tikkollabora ma’ Infrastructure Malta fir‑riġenerazzjoni tal‑ġonna tad‑Dar tal‑Kleru f’Birkirkara b’xogħol ta’ manutenzjoni u tisbiħ, u tħawwil ta’ siġar. Il‑ġonna ta’ din id‑dar, li huma mifruxa fuq 20,000 metru kwadru ta’ art, huma fost il‑ftit żoni mhux mittiefsa mill‑bini f’din il‑lokalità.

Fil‑bidu ta’ din is‑sena tħawlu 700 siġra taċ‑ċipress li se joffru kenn lil 700 siġra oħra li Infrastructure Malta qed tħawwel fuq in‑naħa ta’ ġewwa tal‑ġonna… Read more »

“Fratelli tutti”: a call to disrupt our lives and pay attention to the world

07/10/2020

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 »

Two new publications by the Carmelite Friars

07/10/2020

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 »

“Fratelli tutti”: summary of Pope Francis’s social encyclical

04/10/2020

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 signs new Encyclical “Fratelli tutti” on St Francis’s tomb in Assisi

03/10/2020

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 »