News from the Church in Malta
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…
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…
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…
Mons. Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna u Mons. Isqof Mario Grech se jieħdu sehem fil-Mixja favur il-Ħajja li se ssir nhar il-Ħadd li ġej 22 ta’ April 2018, u li qed tkun organizzata minn LifeNetwork Foundation. It-tema hi: Embrijun Wieħed Minna.
Il-mixja ser tibda minn ħdejn Kastilja, il-Belt Valletta, fl-4 pm u tkompli sa quddiem il-Parlament. Il-ħsieb hu li tintemm fil-5.30 p.m…
Erba’ żgħażagħ ser jiġu ordnati djakni mill‑Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna nhar il‑Ħadd, 22 ta’ April 2018, fil‑Katidral ta’ San Pawl, l‑Imdina, fid‑9am. L‑erba’ żgħażagħ li ser jiġu ordnati djakni huma:
Kulħadd huwa mistieden biex jattendi għaċ‑ċelebrazzjoni tal‑ordinazzjoni u biex jitlob għal aktar vokazzjonijiet u għall‑qdusija tal‑kleru, speċjalment għal dawk li ser jiġu ordnati djakni nhar il-Ħadd…
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L-Erbgħa, 18 ta’ April 2018, tista’ ssegwi ‘live’ t-tlugħ tal-polza tal-għażla għal Kinder 2 fl-iskejjel tal-Knisja għal studenti bniet u subien, fl-Istitut tal-Azzjoni Kattolika, il-Furjana.
Il-polza tas-subien tibda fid-9am u dik tal-bniet f’12pm.
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A few months ago, Pope Francis stated that we cannot improve our political landscape by observing and judging from afar: it requires personal involvement, which should always be done in a spirit of charity and helpfulness. “Try to act personally instead of just looking and criticizing the work of others from the balcony,” the Pope said during a pastoral visit to Cesena in October 2017…
The day of Joseph Ratzinger’s birth has been seen by some as a sign of Divine Providence. It was certainly a sign of things to come. The future Pope Benedict XVI was born on Holy Saturday, April 16th 1927. His birthplace is Marktl-an-Inn, a tiny village less than an hour’s walk away from Altoetting, the most important Marian Shrine in Bavaria…
