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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

30/05/2018

  • 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

29/05/2018

  • 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

27/05/2018

  • 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

26/05/2018

  • 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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The Archbishop officially presents the Maltese version of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation ‘Rejoice and Be Glad’

25/05/2018

  • Archbishop Charles Scicluna will deliver a presentation and launch the Maltese version of Pope Francis’s recent apostolic exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoyce and Be Glad) on Thursday at 7pm in the grounds of the Archbishop’s Seminary, Tal-Virtù, Rabat.

    At the end of the presentation Mgr Scicluna will lead a moment of prayer. The public is invited to attend.

    In the exhortation, the Pope talks about the call to sainthood in today’s world…

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Music room for Id-Dar tal-Providenza residents

24/05/2018

  • Residents of Id-Dar tal-Providenza now have a specialised music room where they can have music sessions on an individual basis as well as in groups, sessions that are of great benefit to them.

    The music room could only materialise with the financial assistance of Rotary Club la Valette, Rotary Club Malta and Rotary International District 2110 that sponsored the project as well as with the Alf…

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The Institute for Works of Religion publishes its 2017 financial statements and report

24/05/2018

  • On April 24th, 2018 the Board of Superintendence of the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR) unanimously approved the Financial Statements for 2017 and submitted to the Cardinals’ Commission a proposal to allocate all profits to the Holy See.

    In 2017, the IOR continued with prudence to offer financial services to the Catholic Church across the world and the Vatican City State…

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A day of prayer and fasting to safeguard life

23/05/2018

  • The people of our islands have always been and still are pro-life from its beginning to its natural end.

    While our MPs are discussing the so-called Act to protect Embryos, Aid to the Church in Need (Malta) feels that, in this circumstances, the Maltese need to reflect more together like brothers, but above all we must ask the help of God to illuminate the hearts and minds of all those responsible for this Act…

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