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31/05/2018

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…

Bishops and doctors welcome rejection of euthanasia in Portugal

31/05/2018

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…

30/05/2018

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…

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…

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…

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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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…

25/05/2018

Click here to download the PDF document of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad) in Maltese.
Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna will officially present the Maltese version of the Apostolic Exhortation on Thursday, 31st May 2018, at 7pm, in the central yard of the Archbishop’s Seminary in Tal-Virtù, Rabat. Click here for more details…

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…