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Photos: The Archbishop’s Pastoral Visit to Siġġiewi Parish

  • Bejn il-Ħadd, 27 u l-Erbgħa, 30 ta’ Mejju 2018, l-Arcisqof Charles J. Scicluna żar il-parroċċa ta’ San Nikola, is-Siġġiewi.

    Waqt il-Viżta Pastorali l-Arċisqof iltaqa’ mal-istudenti u l-edukaturi tal-Iskola Primarja tal-Kulleġġ Sant’Injazju, u kellu laqgħat mat-tfal, l-adolexxenti u ż-żgħażagħ, mal-katekisti u l-operaturi pastorali tal-parroċċa, kif ukoll laqgħa ta’ djalogu mal-Kunsill Lokali. Fl-ewwel ġurnata tal-Viżta Pastorali l-Arċisqof amministra s-Sagrament tal-Ewwel Tqarbina lil madwar 100 tifel u tifla tal-parroċċa…

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Live: Archbishop to present Maltese translation of Pope’s latest apostolic exhortation ‘Gaudete et Exsultate’

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  • L-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna llejla ser jagħti preżentazzjoni u jniedi l-verżjoni bil-Malti tal-Eżortazzjoni Appostolika l-ġdida tal-Papa Franġisku Gaudete et Exsultate (Ifirħu u Thennew).

    Il-preżentazzjoni ser issir issir fis-7pm, fil-bitħa ċentrali tas-Seminarju tal-Arċisqof, tal-Virtù, ir-Rabat. Fi tmiem il-preżentazzjoni l-Arċisqof ser imexxi mument ta’ talb. Il-pubbliku huwa mistieden jattendi.

    F’din l-eżortazzjoni, il-Papa Franġisku jitkellem dwar is-sejħa għall-qdusija fid-dinja tal-lum…

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Pope Francis entrusts Archbishop Scicluna with another mission in Chile

Statement issued by the Holy See Press Office

  • By the end of this week, as planned, His Holiness Pope Francis will greet a group of Chilean priests at Casa Santa Marta.

    In order for the process of reparation and healing of the victims of abuse to proceed, in the coming days, at the request of Pope Francis, Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Mgr Jordi Bertomeu will return to Chile, this time on a mission in the Diocese of Osorno…

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Bishops and doctors welcome rejection of euthanasia in Portugal

  •  The bishops of Portugal have welcomed the rejection of the legalisation of euthanasia in Portugal, with the spokesman for the bishops conference claiming it was “a victory for life, in its full sense”.

     Fr. Manuel Barbosa said: “The elimination of life should never have been put to the vote.”

    Parliament narrowly rejected a law proposed by the Socialist Party which would have legalised euthanasia…

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Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Alfred Xuereb arrives in South Korea

  • Archbishop Mgr Alfred Xuereb (4th from left), Apostolic Nuncio to South Korea was welcomed by bishops on arrival in Seoul on May 27.

     

  • The new apostolic nuncio South Korean has conveyed the support of Pope Francis for peace and reconciliation on the peninsula and pledged to further the unity of the country’s Catholics and pastors with the Holy See…

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Will St George defeat the dragon of unbridled development?

Reaction by the Church Environment Commission to the proposed development at St George's Bay

  • The Church Environment Commission (KA) feels that the proposed development by
    db Group at St George’s Bay runs roughshod over a planning system that is meant to create and serve sustainable communities. This is symptomatic of a planning system which is fast being dismantled to make way to a system in which priority is obviously being given to individual projects rather than to community needs – a clear consequence of ill-advised policies and controversial decisions…

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Pope urges respect for moral norms regarding human life

  • Pope blessing a sick child and his assistants in Bangladesh in December 2017. 


     

  • Pope Francis on Monday encouraged Catholic doctors to continue being faithful and consistent in their commitment to spread and implement the pro-life teaching of the Church so that nothing goes against human life in its concrete existence, no matter how weak,  defenceless, undeveloped or less advanced it may be…

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50th school-leaving anniversary

  • Those students celebrating their last day of school and the end of their 5-year term at the Archbishop’s Minor Seminary in that far away May of 1968 never imagined that they would once again meet up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of that day.

    This special event was held on the 8th May at The Archbishop’s Curia in Floriana, which then hosted the Minor and Major Seminaries…

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Pope Francis: Marriage is an image of God

  • Pope Francis spoke about the beauty of marriage in his homily at the Casa Santa Marta on Friday. Among the faithful present at the morning Mass were seven married couples celebrating their 25th and 50th wedding anniversaries.

    “Yes, you can” or “no, you can’t”

    The Gospel passage for the day, from the Gospel of St Mark, speaks of the intentions of the Pharisees, who asked Jesus a question precisely in order to test Him…

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