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New Board of Directors for RTK Radio

15/10/2015
  • Waqt il-laqgħa ġenerali annwali tal-kumpanija RTK Ltd, li saret il-bieraħ, l-Erbgħa 14 ta’ Ottubru 2015, ix-shareholders eleġġew Bord tad-Diretturi ġdid. Il-membri tal-Bord huma: Lino Casapinta (Chairman) Rose-Anne Abdilla Chris Borg Dun Brendan Gatt Kevin Papagiorcopulo Dun Eddie Zammit Is-Segretarja hija Dr Lara Cassar BA, LL.D Id-diretturi ġew innominati mill-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta u d-Djoċesi ta’ Għawdex. L-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna rringrazzja lid-diretturi li offrew is-servizz tagħhom f’dawn l-aħħar snin…

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Statement by the Safeguarding Commission

14/10/2015

  • With reference to the arraignment in Court of a religious priest, held today, Wednesday 14th October 2015, the Church Commission for the Safeguarding of Children and Vulnerable Adults would like to confirm that this case was forwarded to the Police to investigate. Whilst upholding the presumption of innocence, and irrespective of the outcome of the Court case, action was taken, without prejudice, to safeguard all parties…

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Pope asks forgiveness for the scandals that have rocked the Church

14/10/2015

  • Pope Francis on Wednesday asked forgiveness for scandals that have taken place in the Church and here in the Vatican. He also mentioned recent corruption scandals that have rocked the city of Rome and its municipal administration. He was speaking to the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square before beginning his weekly catechesis. Commenting on today’s reading in which Jesus says “Woe to the world because of scandals…

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Courses from the Secretariat for Catechesis

14/10/2015

  • Is-Segretarjat għall-Katekeżi tal-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta qed jorganizza korsijiet għal min hu nvolut fil-formazzjoni tat-tagħlim Nisrani. 

    Il-Korsijiet 2015 – 2016

    Introduzzjoni għat-Teoloġija u Metodoloġija

    L-ewwel parti: Introduzzjoni Ġenerali għall-Katekeżi (Ottubru sa Diċembru).

    It-tieni parti: Metodoloġija u Pedagoġija (Jannar sa Mejju) Dan il-kors huwa għal dawk li ilhom aktar minn 5 snin jgħallmu.

    Meta: L-Erbgħa filgħodu u filgħaxija (jekk ikun hemm talba sostanzjali għalih)…

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Synod on the Family: Press Briefing, Day Eight

14/10/2015

  • Oct 13. On Tuesday the Synod delegates spent the whole day working in “circuli minores,” director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr Federico Lombardi, SJ, told the daily press briefing. He also read statements from Cardinals George Pell and Wilfrid Napier.

    He was joined at the briefing by three Synod Assembly delegates: Abbot Jeremias Schröder, General of the Benedictines of St…

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Pope Francis: one cannot live the faith and be attached to wealth

12/10/2015

  • Before the recitation of the Marian Prayer, Pope Francis focused his attention on Sunday’s Gospel reading from Mark, which recounts Jesus’ encounter with the “rich young man”.

    The Holy Father explained that this text was built around the “three gazes of Jesus.”

    The first is his “intense gaze full of tenderness and affection,” when the young man expressed that “for him observance of the precepts is not enough, since it does not meet with his desire for wholeness…

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“The Church an instrument of pastoral mediation” – Message by Bishop Mario Grech during the Synod of Bishops

10/10/2015

  • L-intervent li l-Isqof Mario Grech għamel nhar is-Sibt 10 ta’ Ottubru 2015, kmieni wara nofsinhar, fil-preżenza tal-Papa Franġisku u tal-Isqfijiet, waqt l-Erbatax-il Assemblea Ġenerali Ordinarja tas-Sinodu tal-Isqfijiet, li qed tiltaqa’ fl-Awla Sinodali, fil-Vatikan.  It-tema ta’ dan is-Sinodu hi “Il-vokazzjoni u l-missjoni tal-familja fil-Knisja u fid-dinja tal-lum”…

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Synod bishops looking for more autonomy, new insight, fresh language

10/10/2015

  • At the Synod of Bishops on the Family on Friday morning, participants presented the results of their small language group work that has been going on behind closed doors for the past couple of days. Each group has been discussing the first section of the Synod’s working document, orInstrumentum Laboris, focused on the challenges facing family life today.

    Who exactly are those rows of men with their red and purple hats, sitting in the Synod Hall for three whole weeks? …

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Pope Francis: why do good things happen to bad people?

09/10/2015

  • God does not abandon the righteous, while those who sow evil are like strangers, whose names heaven remembers not. This is the lesson Pope Francis drew from the readings of the day at Mass Thursday morning in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican.

    A courageous young mother with a husband and three children – and a tumor – “one of the ugly ones” – that keeps her nailed to her bed…

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