News from the Church in Malta
The Philippine authorities have banned hanging rosaries and religious icons off car dashboards because of safety concerns, prompting an outcry from the Catholic Church, which insists these items offer divine intervention on the nation’s chaotic roads.
The ban, which will take effect on Friday (May 26), is part of a wide-ranging new law aimed at eliminating distractions for drivers…
Pope Francis on Saturday highlighted the serious problem of unemployment. His words came during a meeting with participants attending an International Conference of the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation which has been taking place in Rome this week.
The Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation is a lay-led non-profit-organisation whose purpose it is to promote Catholic Social Doctrine. And is was on Saturday that Pope Francis met with those attending an international conference in the Vatican where he highlighted the fight against poverty and what he called the “grave problem” of unemployment…
On Friday Pope Francis made a Year-of-Mercy style visit to a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Rome, blessing the houses of a dozen people, as parish priests do every year during the Easter season.
According to a May 19 Vatican communique, the Pope wanted to continue the “Mercy Friday” visits he made during the Jubilee of Mercy, which are signs “inspired by the corporal and spiritual works of mercy” he performed during the Holy Year…
Pope Francis on Sunday announced a consistory for the creation of new Cardinals. He made the announcement at the end of the Regina Caeli in St Peter’s Square.
The new Cardinals come from Mali, Spain, Sweden, Laos and El Salvador. The Consistory will take place on June 28th.
Find below the list of new Cardinal designates:
Archbishop Jean Zerbo of Bamako, Mali…
Għada s-Sibt, 20 ta’ Mejju 2017, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna se jibda l-viżta pastorali fil-Parroċċa tan-Naxxar, fejn se jiltaqa’ mat-tfal u ż-żgħażagħ tal-parroċċa, ma’ dawk involuti fil-festa, u mal-operaturi pastorali u l-katekisti fil-komunità tan-Naxxar fost l-oħrajn.
Hawn taħt tista’ taqra l-messaġġ u tara l-programm tal-Arċisqof Scicluna lill-parruċċani tan-Naxxar.
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“The Path of the Holy Family,” the route tradition says was taken when Mary and Joseph fled with Jesus to Egypt to escape Herod, is about to earn its place on the map of UNESCO’s World Heritage sites. This is what Adel Gindy, general head of the international relations of the Egyptian tourism development Authority reported to national media.
Such a designation would be seen as a boon to tourism in a country that has suffered a steep decline in visitors because of terrorism and instability in the region…
Catholic Action members, residents and friends of Id-Dar tal-Providenza attended a Eucharistic Celebration at the Home’s chapel to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Mons Mikiel Azzopardi. Dun Mikiel, as he was popularly referred to, was born in Valletta on February 10th, 1910 and died on May 13th, 1987. This Catholic Action initiative started eight years ago and has since become an annual event…
No one knows who killed Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik.
A young nun who was on a year’s leave of absence, Sister Cathy, as friends called her, was murdered sometime while running an errand on the evening of November 7, 1969. She was 26 years-old.
Her body was found in a dump two months later, though authorities have never been able to identify her killer…
