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Applications for Admission to Church Schools in Malta and Gozo 2025 – 2026

03/02/2025

Applications for ‘Other Applicants’ for admission to Church Schools in Malta and Gozo for the scholastic year commencing in September 2025 will be accepted online from Tuesday 4th February till Thursday 13th February and from Thursday 20th till Thursday 27th February 2025. There is a total of 840 vacant places for students (771 in Malta and 69 in Gozo). Applications for asylum seekers will be accepted in March… Read more »

A month of cultural activities at the Jesuit Oratories in February

03/02/2025

The Jesuit Oratories are offering another month of cultural activities for February, featuring a blend of art, music, history and philosophy.

On Sunday, 2nd February, Pietre Vive Malta is organising guided tours of the Oratories. From 3:00pm to 6:00pm, the public is invited to explore these historic spaces from new artistic and spiritual perspectives. The tours are free of charge and require no prior booking but spaces are limited… Read more »

Public lecture on the ‘Ethical Challenges of AI’

31/01/2025

The French Embassy in Malta, the Alliance française de Malte-Méditerranée and the Archbishop’s Delegate for Culture are organising a public lecture in English on Monday, 3rd February at 6pm at the Catholic Institute in Floriana, on the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence with participation of top researcher Prof. Alexei Grinbaum from Paris-Saclay University, one week before the diplomatic summit on action for AI in Paris (10-11 February)… Read more »

New principal appointed for Archbishop’s Minor Seminary School

31/01/2025

Archbishop Charles Scicluna has appointed Fr Jean-Claude Schembri as the new Principal of the Archbishop’s Minor Seminary School in Tal-Virtù, Rabat. He succeeds Fr Mark Ellul, who has been appointed as the new Delegate for Catholic Education after serving as headmaster of the Minor Seminary School for 13 years.

The Archbishop’s Minor Seminary currently educates 800 students, providing education from the first year of primary to Year 11 of secondary school, and employs approximately 200 staff members… Read more »

Parish priests’ 2025 Live-In: ‘Missionaries of Hope’

30/01/2025

Il‑kappillani tal‑parroċċi f’Malta ltaqgħu għal‑live‑in annwali, bit‑tema li kienet ‘Missjunarji tat-Tama’, fid-dawl tal-Ġublew tat-Tama li l-Knisja Kattolika madwar id-dinja kollha qed tiċċelebra din is-sena. Huma kellhom il-ħin jirriflettu fuq xi tfisser tkun missjunarju llum u kif permezz tal-ezempju tagħhom, ikunu mezz ta’ tama lill-oħrajn.

Il-live-in ta’ din is-sena sar f’format differenti sabiex il-kappillani jkunu f’ambjent iktar rilassat u ta’ fraternità u jgħinhom jirriflettu aktar fuq dak li semgħu u ddiskutew… Read more »

New Vatican document examines potential and risks of AI

30/01/2025

The Pope’s warnings about Artificial Intelligence in recent years provide the outline for “Antiqua et Nova,” the “Note on the relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligence,” that offers the results of a mutual reflection between the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Dicastery for Culture and Education. The new document is addressed especially to “those entrusted with transmitting the faith,” but also to “those who share the conviction that scientific and technological advances should be directed toward serving the human person and the common good” [5]… Read more »

Medicine

30/01/2025

Hawnhekk, fiċ-Ċentru tal-Onkoloġija, il-Mulej jagħtini l-grazzja li napprezza bil-bosta x-xogħol tant dedikat tat-team mediku kollu. Kemm napprezza bil-kbir il-kura li jagħtuna bħala pazjenti kemm għax hi tal-ogħla kwalità u anki wkoll l-għaliex l-mod kif tingħata hu tassew għaref u li jolqot mill-qiegħ nett il-bżonnijiet ta’ kull persuna.

Filwaqt li nuri l-apprezzament tiegħi lejn kulħadd, ħaddiema Maltin u mhux Maltin, nixtieq ninkoraġġiehom ilkoll ħa jibqgħu dejjem jitgħallmu mhux biss mill-kotba imma, u fuq kollox, mill-minjiera bla tarf tal-esperjenza… Read more »

St Sebastian’s hope is built on the certainty that God loves, saves and has mercy – The Archbishop

Mass on the liturgical feast of St Sebastian

27/01/2025   The Parish Church of St Sebastian, Ħal Qormi

L-omelija tal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna

Kunu dejjem lesti biex tagħtu tweġiba lil min jitlobkom, il-għala tat-tama li għandkom. Xi jfisser dan il-kliem, li San Pietru appostlu jikteb fl-ewwel miż-żewġ ittri tiegħu. Qed jgħidilna li fil-ħajja tagħna niltaqgħu ma’ nies li jinnutaw li għandna tama partikolari, mhix tas-soltu. Jistaqsuna, imma għaliex tittamaw?

L-ewwel nett x’inhi t-tama tagħna? It-tama tagħna hi persuna, it-tama tagħna hi Ġesù… Read more »

2 young people begin preparation phase at the Seminary

28/01/2025

Ritratt: Miguela Xuereb

Aktar kmieni dan ix-xahar, fis-Seminarju tal-Arċisqof ingħataw merħba żewġ żgħażagħ li bdew il-perjodu Propedewtiku, jiġifieri fażi ta’ preparazzjoni.

Fi stqarrija ntqal li matul dan il-perjodu, il-propedewtiċi jiġu introdotti għal ħajja aktar organizzata ta’ talb u ta’ dixxerniment personali sabiex jibdew il-vjaġġ tagħhom.

Dawn iż-żewġ żgħażagħ ġew mistiedna jikbru aktar fl-għarfien tagħhom infushom u li jsiru aktar familjari ma’ modi differenti ta’ talb, ma’ ħajja u servizzi fil-komunità, u mal-apprezzament ta’ x’inhi s-sejħa tas-saċerdot fil-Knisja u s-soċjetà Maltija llum… Read more »

Celebrating 60 years since the founding of St Paul Missionary College

28/01/2025

St Paul’s Missionary College in Rabat celebrates sixty years since its foundation, which first welcomed students on 3 October 1964.

As part of the celebrations, Archbishop Charles Scicluna visited the school, where he celebrated mass, engaged in a Q&A session with the students and participated in a dialogue with the staff. Reflecting on the Bible passage of the conversion of St. Paul, the Archbishop emphasised how an encounter with Jesus enlightens and transforms us because we are able to see the truth about our lives… Read more »