News from the Church in Malta
The Church is present on the internet because she is called to accompany and be a neighbour to every individual person. It is not about a communications strategy, but a response to her missionary vocation. Of course, the internet is not lacking in ambiguity and utopianism, and the challenges are demanding. Despite that, the Church does not cease from wanting to proclaim the good news of Jesus where people live…
On Sunday 9th November 2014, Bishop Charles J. Scicluna, Apostolic Administrator sede vacante, celebrated Pontifical Mass on the occasion of Remembrance Day. Mass was held at St John’s Co-cathedral, Valletta. The Apostolic Nuncio, Mgr Aldo Cavalli, concelebrated Mass, which was attended by the President of Malta and Mr Preca, the highest State authorities, as well as other dignitaries.
Photos: Photocity, Valletta…
Your Excellency,
Brothers and Sisters,
We are gathered here today, as is customary every year on Remembrance Day, to commemorate the victims of the two World Wars, which, as we all know, were great tragedies. The theologian Karl Rahner once wrote “the memory is the faculty to forget”. If we have a right to forget, today it is our duty to remember! We call to mind all those innocent victims which were sent to their death by people in power sitting behind their desks.
Such were the sentiments of frustration, anger and sorrow that were expressed so eloquently by a generation of English poets who are known as The Great War Poets, among them Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, who both experienced the horrors of war. 16 million people died during the First World War which began one hundred years ago, in 1914…
In a meeting on Thursday with a delegation from the World Evangelical Alliance, Pope Francis expressed his confidence that the Holy Spirit “can inaugurate a new stage in the relations between Catholics and Evangelicals—a stage that allows us to realize more fully the will of the Lord to bring the Gospel even to the furthest ends of the earth.”
Pope Francis spoke about the Sacrament of Baptism as “an inestimable divine gift” that all Christians have in common…
Pope Francis on Wednesday spoke about the importance of fairness and accessibility in the proceedings of Church Tribunals trying to adjudicate the validity of marriages.
He made his remarks before his General Audience, when he briefly greeted participants of a course offered by the Tribunal of the Roman Rota on “Instructing a Case for the Dispensation of a Marriage ‘Super rato et non consumato’” -valid, but unconsummated marriages – which can be dissolved under certain conditions according to Church law…
Illum fid-Dar Fra Diegu l-Ħamrun, l-Arċidjoċesi u l-Ministeru tal-Familja u s-Solidarjeta’ Soċjali iffirmaw żewġ ftehim ta’ ħidma flimkien fil-qasam soċjali.
L-ewwel ftehim huwa dwar id-Dar Fra Diegu stess li permezz tiegħu il-Kongregazzjoni tas-Sorijiet Franġiskani tal-Qalb ta’ Ġesu, flimkien mal-Fundazzjoni għas-Servizzi Soċjali, qed jiżvilluppaw is-servizz residenzjali provdut għal tfal u żgħażagħ u issa se jkun hemm erba’ appartamenti għal dan il-għan…
A Church that is not united around its bishop is a sick Church. Jesus wanted unity between the bishop and all the faithful, starting with priests and deacons. However the role of bishop is not a position of honor, it is a service. Therefore, there is no room in the Church for a worldly mentality, for people who seek ‘ecclesiastical careers’, for bishops who instead of lowering themselves in service, are vain, proud and power-hungry.
The Ordained Ministries and in particular the role of Bishops and episcopal collegiality were the focus of Pope Francis’ General Audience catechesis this week…
Rivalry and vainglory are two worms that weaken the Church; instead we must act in a spirit of humility and harmony, without seeking our own interests said Pope Francis Monday morning at Mass in Casa Santa Marta.
Taking a cue from the Letter of St. Paul to the Philippians, the Pope noted that a bishop’s joy lies in seeing love, unity and harmony in his Church…
Sitt entitajiet tal-Knisja bbenefikaw minn total ta’ €51,955 li nġabru fis-70 parroċċa ta’ Malta f’Jum il-Karità, fl-4 ta’ Mejju li għadda. Dawn id-donazzjonijiet ġew ippreżentati llum, it-Tlieta 4 ta’ Novembru 2014, mill-Isqof Charles J. Scicluna, Amministratur Appostoliku sede vacante, waqt laqgħa li saret fil-Kurja tal-Arċisqof.
Din l-offerta tal-poplu Nisrani ser tgħin lil dawk l-entitajiet tal-Knisja li jaħdmu ma’ persuni fil-bżonn, fosthom it-tfal, l-anżjani, il-familji, il-persuni b’dizabilità u r-refugjati…
In the over-informed society in which we live, the problem “is not finding a meaningful message, it is understanding it, in other words acknowledging it as important for me, as significant because of the multiple responses I get”. This was acknowledged by father Antonio Spadaro, director of the Jesuit fathers’ fortnightly magazine “La Civiltà Cattolica”, as he spoke earlier today at the meeting of the bishops in charge of social communication for the European Bishops Conferences, which is taking place in Athens (Greece) about “Communication as encounter, between authenticity and concreteness”, on the initiative of the Commission for Social Communication of Ccee (Council of European Bishops Conferences)…
