Mons. Joseph Galea-Curmi, imwieled nhar l-1 ta’ Jannar 1964, iben Paul Galea Curmi u Josette née Mifsud Bonnici, mgħammed nhar il-5 ta’ Jannar fil-Parroċċa ta’ Sant’Elena f’Birkirkara, u ordnat saċerdot minn Mons. Ġużeppi Mercieca nhar il-5 ta’ Lulju 1991, huwa l-ħdax il-isqof awżiljaru tal-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta fl-epoka kontemporanja, jiġifieri mill-bidu tal-ħakma Ingliża sallum.

F’dan in-numru mhux qed ngħoddu isqfijiet koadjuturi, jekk qabel ma ġewx maħtura isqfijiet awżiljari…

Pope Francis used the reading from 1 Corinthians 10:31–11:1 during a homily he addressed to over 70,000 altar servers gathered in St Peter’s Square for an Extraordinary Audience. These altar servers between the ages of 13 and 23 come from 19 different countries and are participating in the 12th International Pilgrimage for Altar Boys and Girls.

Do everything for God’s glory

Giving God glory in everything (see 1 Cor 10:31) “sums up what it means to be a friend of Jesus”, Pope Francis began…

Every diocese in the Catholic world has a cathedral it is the chief church of the diocese, the bishop’s church. It is not uncommon to hear someone refer mistakenly to an especially large or magnificent church as a cathedral. But it isn’t size or décor that matters, its the bishop. That said, there is one physical feature that sets a cathedral apart from all the other churches in the diocese: the bishop’s throne, which is usually set on a raised platform within the sanctuary…

“I can honestly say that the labor camp was the best place to understand what ‘love your enemy’ really means,” said Myroslav Marynovych, a Ukrainian Catholic who spent seven years in a Soviet gulag in the Perm region of Russia.

After receiving the 2018 Charles J. Chaput Award at the Napa Institute conference this month, Marynoych explained to CNA how the gospel came to life for him in the gulag, and how a stint in solitary confinement led him to write a letter to St…