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Pope celebrates his name feast with poor and needy

24/04/2018

  • Photo: Pope Francis at lunch with the poor of Molise, Italy, 5 July, 2014.  

  • Pope Francis on Monday marked the feast of his namesake, Jorge (George), in his characteristic unassuming way, spending time with the needy and homeless of Rome, the Office of Papal Charities said in a brief note.  It said that on this occasion it would distribute 3000 ice creams to the poor and homeless who daily come to soup kitchens, dormitories and other places run mostly by Caritas in the Italian capital. 

    Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio  to parents of Italian descent on 17 December 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  He was baptized Jorge, the Spanish for George, at Christmas that year in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Buenos Aires…

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Every Life Matters Conference

23/04/2018

  • As prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing is a logical extension of good prenatal care. But prenatal tests are also criticized by the disability rights community, which contends that advances in science should be directed at improving their lives, not preventing or annihilating them.

    Great misconceptions exist in the community at large as well as within the medical profession on living life with disability…

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Listening, discerning and living the call of Lord

Pope Francis' message for the 55th World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2017

22/04/2018

  • Dear Brothers and Sisters,

    Next October, the Fifteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will meet to discuss the theme of young people and in particular the relationship between young people, faith and vocation. There we will have a chance to consider more deeply how, at the centre of our life, is the call to joy that God addresses to us and how this is “God’s plan for men and women in every age” (SYNOD OF BISHOPS, XV ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Young People, The Faith and Vocational Discernment, Introduction)…

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Live: The Ordination to the Diaconate of four seminarians

21/04/2018

  • Il-Ħadd, 22 ta’ April 2018, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ser jiċċelebra l-Ordinazzjoni Djakonali ta’ erba’ djakni ġodda, fil-Katidral ta’ San Pawl, l-Imdina. Iċ-ċelebrazzjoni ser tibda fid-9am.

    L-erba’ seminaristi li ser jiġu ordnati djakni huma: Peter Ellul mill‑Parroċċa ta’ San Pawl Nawfragu, il‑Belt Valletta, Jean Gové mill‑Parroċċa ta’ Marija Mtellgħa s‑Sema, il‑Mosta, Aayrton Ray Muscat mill‑Parroċċa ta’ Santa Luċija V.M., l‑Imtarfa u Matthew Pulis mill‑Parroċċa tal‑Familja Mqaddsa, l‑Iklin…

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Public forum on proposed amendments to embryo protection act

21/04/2018

  • A public forum ‘The Proposed IVF Law: What are the consequences?’ will take place on Monday 23rd April 2018 at 6.00pm at the University Chapel, Tal-Qroqq.

    Several experts in the field will be on the panel, including cell biologist Prof. Pierre Schembri Wismayer, family lawyer Dr Ray Zammit, gynaecologist Mr Mark Formosa, and moral theologian Dr Nadia Delicata.

    The meeting will be moderated by psychiatrist Prof…

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Pastoral Visit by the Archbishop at Ħ’Attard Parish

20/04/2018

  • Is-Sibt, 21 ta’ April 2018, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ser jibda l-viżta pastorali fil-Parroċċa ta’ Ħ’Attard, fejn se jiltaqa’ mat-tfal u l-adolexxenti tal-parroċċa, mal-operaturi pastorali, mal-anzjani, mas-saċerdoti u r-reliġjużi tal-komunità kif ukoll mal-membri tal-Kunsill Lokali. Il-Viżta Pastorali tintemm fit-2 ta’ Mejju 2018.

    Hawn taħt tista’ taqra l-messaġġ tal-Arċisqof Scicluna lill-parruċċani Seraċini.

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Pope wants Alfie Evans at Rome’s pediatric hospital

20/04/2018

  • The pope asked the director of the Bambino Gesù Hospital to do “the possible and the impossible” for Alfie Evans to be transferred to the pontifical hospital

    Mariella Enoc, director of the Pontifical Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, has been working for months to allow little Alfie Evans to be transferred to the hospital in Rome, Vatican News reported in Italian on April 19…

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Cana Movement: The proposed amendments to the Embryo Protection Act attempt to cancel out differences endowed by nature itself

19/04/2018

  • Cana Movement is sensitive to the desire of couples to bear and bring up children and they should be supported in this noble vocation.  The current Embryo Protection Act favours assistance to infertile couples. Children are gifts and not entitlements or commodities. IVF policies should therefore not relegate the rights of the unborn child to the desire to bear children at all costs, no matter how noble that desire may be…

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The sign of the cross is our badge, Pope Francis says

19/04/2018

  • On Wednesday Pope Francis said that to make the sign of the cross is to mark ourselves as Christians, and that it is something we should do often to remind ourselves that we belong to God.

    “The cross is the badge that shows who we are: our speaking, thinking, looking, working [are] under the sign of the cross, that is, the love of Jesus, to the end,” the pope said April 18…

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