News from the Church in Malta
Applications for grants from the Youth Ministry Fund are now open for people engaged in pastoral service with young people. The Fund has at its disposal €5,000, which will be allocated to projects intended to strengthen youth and especially their leaders.
Groups, movements and communities can submit applications for projects that address one or more of the pastoral dimensions for young people: Discipleship, Quality, Dialogue…
Nhar il-Ħadd 15 ta’ Ġunju, l-Arċisqof Pawlu Cremona O.P. iċċelebra Quddiesa għall-immigranti mill-Afrika li qed jgħixu f’Malta, ġewwa Dar Manwel Magri, l-Imsida.
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Pope Francis opened the Ecclesial Convention of the Diocese of Rome on Monday night, emphasizing the Church’s role of Mother in a society where more and more children are leading the life of an orphan.
Pope Francis began his remarks by stating that over the past year, he has made numerous parish visits in the Diocese of Rome, where he has met a great number of people, however briefly…
On the occasion of the World Day for Social Communications 2014, on Monday 16th June, a business brunch for news editors and journalists was held at the Excelsior Hotel in Floriana. The main speaker was H.E. Professor Douglas Kmiec, former ambassador of the United States to Malta. Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. concluded the conference with his message for this occasion, and Fr Charles Tabone O.P., Archbishop’s Delegate, welcomed guests to the conference…
Il-Ġimgħa 13 ta’ Ġunju 2014, l-Arċisqof Pawlu Cremona O.P. iltaqa’ mal-eks ambaxxatur tal-Istati Uniti għal Malta, l-E.T. il-Professur Douglas Kmiec. Nhar it-Tnejn li ġej, il-Professur Kmiec ser jindirizza konferenza għall-edituri u diriġenti tal-media bit-tema: “Jekk is-sekularizzazzjoni ssir sekulariżmu, x’jiġri mid-demokrazija? Ir-relazzjoni bejn Knisja u Stat”.
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Pope Francis delivered a video message to the organisers, players and fans participating in the 2014 World Cup tournament in Brazil. Delivered in Portuguese, the message expresses the Holy Father’s hope that, in addition to a celebration of sport, this World Cup can be transformed into a festival of solidarity between peoples.
The message goes on to say sport is not only a form of entertainment, but also a tool to communicate the values that promote the good of the human person and help to build a more peaceful and fraternal coexistence…
Pope Francis warned corrupt persons in positions of power that they would do well to fear God’s justice and repent on Wednesday, during the course of the catechetical portion of his weekly General Audience, dedicated to the seventh and final of the gifts of the Holy Spirit: fear of the Lord.
Departing repeatedly from his prepared text in Italian for emphasis, the Holy Father spoke of the fear of the Lord, not as a servile or supine disposition before the Lord, but as the grateful response of people who have first been loved by the infinite love of God the Father…
“Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare”, the courage “to say yes to encounter and no to conflict: yes to dialogue and no to violence; yes to negotiations and no to hostilities; yes to respect for agreements and no to acts of provocation; yes to sincerity and no to duplicity”.
This was Pope Francis message to his guests Sunday evening – the Israeli and Palestinian Presidents Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas – as he welcomed them to his home for an Invocation for Peace in the Holy Land…
The European Commission decided on 28 May not to submit any legislative proposal as a reply to the European Citizens Initiative ‘One of Us’. This initiative asked for the ending of the EU financing of activities which presuppose the destruction of human embryos, in particular in the areas of research (projects making use of human embryonic stem cells – hESC) and development cooperation (abortion, either directly or indirectly financed)…
