News from the Church in Malta
Francis has spoken. He has spoken loudly. The Pope’s encyclical had long been in the pipeline, perhaps even as long as nearly two years. Although the environment has often been part of the social teaching of successive Popes, particularly in the last fifty years, Laudato si’ is the first major document which is dedicated solely to this issue. Its subtitle already speaks volumes: On care for our common home…
On Sunday 21st June 2015, Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna celebrated a Pontificial Mass on the occasion of the feast of the birth of St John the Baptist, at St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta.
The Archbishop’s Homily
Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann, il-Belt Valletta
21 ta’ Ġunju 2015
Greetings to our English speaking guests and also a special greeting to Your Excellency, thank you for your presence, and to those members of the Equestrian Orders of the Knights of Malta and the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre…
At the end of the first day of a two day trip to Turin, Pope Francis met with tens of thousands of young people in the city’s central square, Piazza Vittorio.
Pope Francis spoke to the young people “from the heart” for more than half an hour, laying aside his prepared remarks (which he promised would later be published)…
The following text is a useful guide for an initial reading of the Encyclical. It will help you to grasp the overall development and identify the basic themes. The first two pages are an overview ofLaudato si’ (literally “Be praised” or better, “Praise be to you”).Then for each of the six chapters, there is a one-page summary which gives the argument or main points and some key passages…
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the Encyclical “Laudato Si’”
Pope Francis’ first encyclical is focused on the idea of ‘integral ecology’, connecting care of the natural world with justice for the poorest and most vulnerable people. Only by radically reshaping our relationships with God, with our neighbours and with the natural world, he says, can we hope to tackle the threats facing our planet today.
Science, he insists, is the best tool by which we can listen to the cry of the earth, while dialogue and education are the two keys that can “help us to escape the spiral of self-destruction which currently engulfs us”…
L-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ser jippreżenta l-punti prinċipali tal-Enċiklika tal-Papa Franġisku “Laudato Si’” (Tkun imfaħħar int, [Mulej]). Il-preżentazzjoni ser issir nhar l-Erbgħa 24 ta’ Ġunju 2015, fis-7:00 p.m., fil-bitħa ċentrali tas-Seminarju tal-Arċisqof, tal-Virtù, ir-Rabat.
Għal din l-attività ġew mistiedna l-Membri Parlamentari, rappreżentanti tal-għaqdiet mhux governattivi li jaħdmu favur l-ambjent, il-kapijiet tal-iskejjel tal-Knisja u tal-Istat, il-kappillani, rappreżentanti lajċi minn kull parroċċa f’Malta u rappreżentanti minn għadqiet impenjati fil-Knisja…
The Interdiocesan Commission for the Environment (KA) is deeply concerned about the proposed complex of shooting ranges on around 70 tumoli of land which include agricultural land at Busbesija, Mosta. The area which is outside development zone (ODZ) is an area of high landscape value as designated in the Central Local Plan. The KA’s view is that the use of such land for the proposed project amounts to a substantial negative impact on the Maltese countryside…
Pope Francis said Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta on Tuesday morning. Following the readings of the day, the Holy Father reflected on the place of poverty in the Gospel, saying that the Gospel becomes incomprehensible if poverty is removed from it, and that it is unfair to label priests who show a pastoral concern for the poor as, “Communists”…
