Archbishop Noël Treanor, who was serving as Apostolic Nuncio to the European Union, has died in Brussels at age 73. The bishop emeritus of Down and Connor, Ireland, passed away on the morning of Sunday, 11 August, due to a heart attack.

“It is with a profound sense of shock and sadness that I learned yesterday of the death of Archbishop Noël Treanor”, said Bishop Alan McGuckian, Archbishop Treanor’s successor in Down and Connor… Read more »

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Archbishop Charles Scicluna has made a heartfelt appeal for empathy towards immigrants in Malta, urging citizens to remember their own history of emigration.

His comments, made during an interview on RTK103’s Għal Kulħadd ma’ Christine Delicata, come at a time of growing racial tensions and controversial government policies targeting foreign workers.

“Remember the Maltese emigrants when we welcome immigrants to Malta,” Archbishop Scicluna said, drawing on his personal experience as the child of immigrants in Canada… Read more »

Following the positive response in July, the Church in Malta is inviting all Catholics in Malta to participate in one or more of the spiritual conversations that will be held this August.

As we journey throughout the year dedicated to the theme “Church that Goes Forth”, a series of spiritual conversations are being organised within the synodal process for ecclesial renewal One Church, One Journey… Read more »

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TEST – In view of the approaching start of the Jubilee 2025, the question has recently been raised as to whether it would be possible to provide for the configuration and opening of the Holy Door in Cathedral Churches, International and National Shrines, as well as in other particularly significant places of worship.

In this regard, while respecting the most sensitive consideration of the pastoral and devotional motivations that may have suggested such a laudable aspiration, it is nevertheless deemed necessary to recall the precise indications established by the Holy Father in the Bull of Indiction of the Jubilee 2025, Spes non confundit, which indicates as the Holy Door that of Saint Peter’s Basilica and the other three Papal Basilicas, namely Saint John Lateran, Saint Mary Major and Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls (cf… Read more »