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New Parish Priest for Stella Maris Parish, Sliema

19/09/2015

- L-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ħatar lil Mons. Anton Portelli bħala kappillan tal-Parroċċa ta’ Stella Maris, tas-Sliema.
  
  Dun Anton Portelli twieled fis-6 ta’ Mejju 1947. Huwa rċieva l-edukazzjoni primarja fl-iskola ta’ St Joseph, il-Belt Valletta, u l-edukazzjoni sekondarja u post-sekondarja fis-Seminarju, il-Furjana. Kompla l-istudji terzjarji ta’ Baċellerat fl-Arti, u Liċenzjat fil-Filosofija u t-Teoloġija, fl-Università ta’ Malta. Kiseb ukoll Masters f’Human Resource Development…

18/09/2015

The Church Schools Association (CSA) deplores the way that the MUT expressed its opinion regarding recruitment of staff in Church Schools by using sweeping statements and ignoring the procedures as advocated in the agreement between the Church Authorities and the MUT for teaching grades in Church School (2011, section C paragraph 3 on Grievance Procedure). Such repeatedly bullying attitudes by the MUT towards the Secretariat for Catholic Education and the Church Schools leaders is neither respectful nor conducive to any progress in education in Malta…

18/09/2015

Pope Francis received a group of young people in consecrated life on Thursday morning. The special audience was the highlight of the International Congress for Young People in Consecrated Life taking place in Rome this week, in the context of the ongoing Year of Consecrated Life, which will close on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (Feb…

17/09/2015

Pope Francis on Wednesday appealed for prayers for his Apostolic Voyage to Cuba and to the United States, which begins on Saturday. “I greet the Cuban and the American people,” he said, “who, guided by their Pastors, have prepared themselves spiritually” for the visit. The Pope invoked the “light and strength of the Holy Spirit, and the intercession of Mary Most Holy” the Patroness of Cuba under the title of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre, and the Patroness of America under the title of the Immaculate Conception…

16/09/2015

Message from the Plenary Assembly of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences – Holy Land 2015

The Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European nations, at their Plenary Assembly in the Holy Land (11-16 September), express their closeness to the faithful and thank the Patriarch of Jerusalem for the invitation. They also express their thanks to the religious, in this year devoted to the Consecrated Life, and to all the Christians whom they have met and who live in this Land, for their testimony of faith and safekeeping of the Holy Places as places of Christian remembrance and living worship…

16/09/2015

With reference to the press release issued by the Malta Union of Teachers (MUT), the Secretariat for Catholic Education would like to emphasize that it disapproves of any alleged irregular recruitment practices which may have been adopted by certain schools.

The Secretariat also disapproves of the MUT’s practice of writing to the Archbishop and issuing a press release with the contents of the letter within two hours…

16/09/2015

Pope Francis says the Church is a mother and must have that loving and tender maternal feeling and human warmth as otherwise all that remains is rigidity and discipline. That was the message at the heart of the Pope’s homily on Tuesday (15th September) at the Mass celebrated in the Santa Marta Residence. Tuesday’s Mass was also attended by the C-9 Cardinals who are meeting in the Vatican this week…

15/09/2015

A group of 27 residents of Dar tal-Providenza. together with their carers, met with Pope Francis this morning near Casa Santa Marta, right after the recital of the Angelus for those gathered in St Peter’s Square. They were accompanied by Archbishop Mgr Charles J. Scicluna, Archbishop Emeritus Paul Cremona OP, Fr Martin Micallef, Director of Dar tal-Providenza, administration and carers from the home…

15/09/2015

L-inizjattiva ta’ evanġelizzazzjoni li bdiet f’Malta kienet u għada inizjattiva importanti fit-tixrid tal-Evanġelju fl-erbat’irjieħ tad-dinja. Hekk qal il-Kardinal Peter Turkson, il-President tal-Kunsill Pontifiċju tal-Ġustizzja u Paċi tal-Vatikan li ġie Malta għaċ-ċelebrazzjoni li saret ilbieraħ fil-Knisja ta’ San Franġisk f’Birkirkara biex tfakkar il-bidu tal-Institute for World Evangelization – ICPE Mission tletin sena ilu. Il-Kardinal Turkson kompla jgħid li l-Knisja mingħajr missjoni m’hijiex il-Knisja vera nisranija u li d-dinja għandha bżonn kbir ta’ persuni b’mod partikolari lajċi li jiddedikaw ħajjithom kompletament biex iwasslu ‘l Kristu lill-oħrajn…

15/09/2015

If we want to move forward “on the path of Christian life” we must fall, just as Jesus did when he carried the Cross.

This was the message at the heart of Pope Francis’ homily on Monday morning during Mass at Casa Santa Marta.

The Mass, which took place on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, was also attended by the C9 Cardinals who are meeting in the Vatican until September 16…