News from the Church in Malta
Around 370 people, most of them Eritrean and Syrian asylum-seekers, drowned on Oct. 3, 2013 when their smugglers’ boat capsized off the island of Lampedusa…
On Wednesday 1st October 2014, Bishop Mario Grech, President of the Maltese Episcopal Conference, addressed a press conference, before leaving Malta to attend an Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. The Synod, which starts on Sunday 5th October and ends on Sunday 19th October, will be discussing the theme ‘Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the context of Evangelisation’…
With the Synod of Bishops on the family about to open on Sunday, the Vatican has revealed that the message for next year’s World Communications Day is also focused on the theme of the family as ‘a privileged place of encounter with the gift of love’.
‘Communicating the Family’ is the title of the message which is traditionally published in full on January 24th, feast day of St Francis de Sales, the patron saint of writers and journalists…
On Tuesday 30th September 2014, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. celebrated Mass on the occasion of the Day dedicated to the Elderly, at Christ the King Parish Church, Paola.
Present for this Mass were the Acting President of Malta H.E. Dolores Cristina, the Hon. Justyne Caruana, the Hon. Chris Fearne and the Hon. Mario Galea.
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Ħafna katekisti, qassisin u missjunarji jkollhom jimxu kilometri twal fix-xemx u fix-xita biex imorru jaqdu l-ministeru tagħhom fil-vilaġġ li tiegħu jkunu reponsabli biex b’hekk iwasslu lil Ġesù għand dawn in-nies.
L-Uffiċċju Missjunarju qed jorganiżża mixja b’risq il-missjoni biex permezz tal-fondi miġbura jkompli jgħin diversi pajjiżi jkollhom ħajja aħjar, ikompli jgħin diversi katekisti u qasisin ikollhom mezz biex dawn jivjaġġaw minn post għall ieħor…
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The Pontifical Council for Social Communications published a note today explaining the theme of World Communications Day 2015: “Communicating the family: a privileged place of encounter with the gift of love”. The theme follows in continuity with the previous year’s message, and dovetails with the central theme of the next two Synods on the family.
It is important to recall that World Communications Day, the only World Day established by Vatican Council II, is celebrated in many countries, upon the recommendation of bishops throughout the world, on the Sunday preceding Pentecost, and that the Holy Father’s Message for the event is traditionally published on the feast day of St…
Today, in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father Francis received in audience the president of Malta, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, who subsequently met with Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations with States.
The cordial discussions focused on the good relations between the Holy See and Malta and highlighted the significant contribution made by the Catholic Church in the fields of education and welfare, especially in favour of the poor…
Nhar it-Tnejn 29 ta’ Settembru 2014, ġiet iċċelebrata Quddiesa ta’ radd il-ħajr lil Alla, fil-Katidral tal-Imdina, fl-okkażjoni tal-40 anniversarju mill-ordinazzjoni episkopali tal-Arċisqof Emeritu, Mons. Ġużeppi Mercieca. Il-Quddiesa tmexxiet mill-Arċisqof Pawlu Cremona OP. In-Nunzju Appostoliku, Mons. Aldo Cavalli, l-Isqof Mario Grech, l-Isqof Awżiljarju Charles J. Scicluna u l-Isqof Joe Alessandro O.F.M. Kapp. ikkonċelebraw, filwaqt li l-Arċisqof Ġużeppi Mercieca assista matul il-Quddiesa.
Għal din l-okkażjoni, l-Arċisqof Cremona, f’isem il-Knisja, ippreżenta donazzjoni ta’ flus b’risq il-fond ta’ karità ta’ Mons…
