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Message by H.L. Msgr Mario Grech, Bishop of Gozo, during the migrants inter-faith funeral service

23/04/2015

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…

22/04/2015

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…

22/04/2015

“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”…

21/04/2015

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…

21/04/2015

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”…

21/04/2015

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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21/04/2015

May the witness of the martyrs help us to avoid the temptation of transforming our faith into power. Those were Pope Francis’ words during his homily at the morning Mass in the Casa Santa Marta on Monday, as he reflected on the Gospel story of the crowds who come searching for Jesus following the multiplication of the loaves and the fishes…

21/04/2015

The Faculty of Theology and the Għaqda Studenti tat-Teoloġija are holding the annual Aquinas Lecture on Thursday 23 April 2015 at 7:00 p.m., at the auditorium of the Old University Building in Valletta.

Rev. Professor William Henn O.F.M. Cap., from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, will deliver a lecture on Thomas Aquinas, Yves Congar and Unity in Faith.

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20/04/2015

Nhar it-12 t’April 2015, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna iċċelebra quddiesa għall-Professjoni Solenni ta’ Sr Lilian Borg u l-25 Sena mill-Professjoni ta’ Sr Christine Borg fil-Festa tal-Ħniena Divina, fil-Monasteru ta’ Sant’Ursola l-Belt Valletta.

L-Omelija tal-Arċisqof
Il-Madre Prijura Sr Celina Sultana OSJ u Sr Christine Borg jakkumpanjaw lil Sr Lilian Borg fl-okkażjoni tal-investitura tagħha fil-15 ta’ Novembru 2009 (Ritratt: www.orderofmalta-malta.org.mt)…

20/04/2015

Pope Francis has appealed to the international community to take swift and decisive action to avoid more tragedies of migrants seeking a better life. His heartfelt cry to the world came following news of the sinking of yet another boat carrying migrants in the Mediterranean Sea in which it is feared 700 people may be dead.

The Pope was speaking on Sunday morning after the Regina Coeli prayer in St…