News from the Church in Malta
“Effective ways of promoting human dignity” has been conceived in order to generate awareness of initiatives that promote human dignity in an effective and creative way.
The main speaker of the following three events is Anna Halpine, founder of World Youth Alliance and CEO of Fertility Education and Medical Management (FEMM) Foundation – an organization dedicated to a knowledge-based health programme for women…
Pope Francis has appealed to mankind not manipulate or exploit the planet. Speaking at the end of the weekly General Audience in St. Peter’s Square the Pope noted that on April 22 we celebrate Earth Day.
“I exhort everyone to see the world through the eyes of God the Creator: the earth is an environment to be safeguarded, a garden to be cultivated” he said. Francis continued: “The relationship of mankind with nature must not be conducted with greed, manipulation and exploitation, but it must conserve the divine harmony that exists between creatures and Creation within the logic of respect and care, so it can be put to the service of our brothers, also of future generations”…
On Wednesday 22nd April 2015, an activity for all 4th Form Church School students was held in four different schools. Over 1,200 students from 16 schools have participated. The theme of this year’s activity was “Big questions, one great answer!”. The purpose of these activities are to help students face life’s big questions in the light of Christ as the one great answer…
The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, has confirmed that Pope Francis will visit Cuba ahead of his visit to the United States in September 2015.
In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, Father Lombardi said, “I am able to confirm that the Holy Father Francis, having received and accepted the invitation from the civil authorities and bishops of Cuba, has decided to pay a visit to the island before his arrival in the United States for the trip announced some time ago.”
The visit to Cuba is especially significant in light of the role played by Pope Francis in diplomatic negotiations between the United States and Cuba…
On Thursday 23rd April 2015, an inter-religious funeral service was held for the 24 migrants who died at sea, and who were brought to Malta last Monday. Prayers were led by Mgr Mario Grech, Bishop of Gozo, and by Imam Mohammed El Sadi. State authorities and other dignitaries were present. Mgr Joe Galea Curmi, Vicar General, also attended. The funeral was held outside the morgue at Mater Dei hospital.
Message by Bishop Mario Grech
We are in the presence of twenty-four unidentified dead human bodies but we know that many more, hundreds, lay in the great graveyard that the Mare Nostrum has become…
At his general audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis continued his catechesis on the family, focussing again on the complementarity of men and women.
Pope Francis commented on the second account of the creation of man in Genesis (following his commentary at the previous audience on the first account of man’s creation. The first man, Adam, is created “alone” – and God determines to make for him “a helper suited to him.” When the first woman is presented to the man, he recognizes in her “bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh.” Finally there is a mirroring, a reciprocity,” the Pope said…
“Today the Church is the Church of martyrs”. And among these martyrs are “our brothers whose throats were cut on the beach of Libya; that young man burned alive by companions for being a Christian; those immigrants on the high seas thrown overboard for being Christians; those Ethiopians assassinated for being Christians”. In the chapel of Casa Santa Marta on Friday morning, 21 April, recounting the story of the first martyr, St Stephen, Pope Francis recalled the many present-day martyrs: including those whose names we do not know, who are suffering in prisons or who are defamed and persecuted “by so many modern Sanhedrins”, or for living “the faith within their own family”…
An activity for all 4th Form Church School students will be held tomorrow, Wednesday 22nd April 2015, in four different schools contemporarily, starting at 9:00 a.m. Over 1,200 students from 16 schools will be participating. The schools where the activities will be held are: St Monica in Gzira, St Agatha in Rabat, St Michael’s in St Venera and the Archbishop’s Seminary in Rabat…
Press statement of the President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), Reinhard Cardinal Marx, on the tragedy in the Mediterranean.
“We cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a vast cemetery!” This was the call of Pope Francis to the European States, in his address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 25 November 2014, in which he encouraged “mutual support” and warned for the risk of “particularistic solutions”…
Il-Kurja tixtieq tavża li l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna jinsab Ruma biex mil-lum, it-Tlieta 21 ta’ April 2015, jagħti kors dwar il-Proċeduri Penali skont il-Liġi tal-Knisja, fil-Pontificia Università Gregoriana. L-Arċisqof ser jattendi wkoll għal-laqgħa regolari tal-Kongregazzjoni għad-Duttrina tal-Fidi, fil-Vatikan. Mons. Scicluna mistenni lura Malta nhar il-Ħadd 26 ta’ April 2015.
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