News from the Church in Malta
World Day of Peace
“Blessed are the peacemakers” is the theme chosen by the Holy Father for the forty-sixth World Day of Peace, which will fall on 1 January 2013, according to a communique released today by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. “The annual Message of the Pope, in the complexity of the present time, will encourage everyone to take responsibility with regard to peace-building”, the English-language communique reads… Read more »
During the middle of last month the Archbishop conducted a Pastoral visit in the parish of Marija Reġina in Marsa, where he visited the children and their catechists in the M.U.S.E.U.M. centre in Marsa.
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Il-motto ta’ l-aħħar ‘gradwazzjoni’, jew aħjar ‘Lejla ta’ Solidarjetà’, li saret fil-kumpless San Blas, il-Ħamis, 5 ta’ Lulju li għadda kien “fejn hemm il-ħajja, hemm it-tama”. Is-serata rat 22 żagħżugħ u żagħżugħa ‘jiggradwaw’ wara li temmew kors ta’ rijabilitazzjoni mid-dipendenza tad-droga f’dan iċ-ċentru mmexxi mill-CARITAS.
Mons Victor Grech, Direttur tal-CARITAS, fid-diskors tiegħu rabat it-tama ma’ dik li hu sejjaħ “il-kultura tal-ħajja” u ħeġġeġ lil dawk preżenti biex “innisslu fit-tfal minn ċkunithom, fil-familja u fl-iskejjel” din il-kultura tal-ħajja… Read more »
Pan African Congress logo
“Being witnesses of Jesus Christ in Africa today. ‘Salt of the earth … light of the World’” is the theme of the forthcoming Pan African Congress for Catholic Laity, which has been organised by the Pontifical Council for the Laity and is due to take place in Yaounde, Cameroon, from 4 to 9 September. The initiative is part of the council’s tradition of organising continental and/or regional congresses for Catholic lay people in various parts of the world… Read more »
“Bħala mużiċista individwali f’orkestra jaqleb dak li mhux melodjuż f’armonija sħiħa permezz ta’ ħafna xogħol, sagrifiċċju u għax jisma’ lil ħaddieħor, hekk ukoll in-nies fid-dinja jistgħu jdawru l-konflitt f’paċi”.
Hekk saħaq il-Papa Benedittu XVI qabel kunċert li sar fil-11 ta’ Lulju ad unur tiegħu minn mużiċisti żgħażagħ ġejjin minn Iżrael, it-territorji Palestinjani u pajjiżi tal-Arabja.
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Pope's Butler
In a press briefing Thursday afternoon, the head of the Holy See Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, told reporters the investigation into the public release of confidential Vatican documents by a three-Cardinal commission led by Cardinal Julian Herranz will soon come to a conclusion. The special commission is expected to submit the results of their work to the Holy Father next week… Read more »
Fid-Disa’ Kapitlu Ġenerali li s-Soċjetà Missjunara ta’ San Pawl għadha kemm iċċelebrat, Fr Mark Grima mssp ġie maħtur Superjur Ġenerali ta’din is-Soċjetà għas-sitt snin li ġejjin.
F’dan il-Kapitlu Ġenerali, delegati tas-Soċjetà mill-Filippini, Malta, Perù, Pakistan, l-Awstralja, Ruma, u l-Kanada, iddiskutew temi differenti fuq l-andament ta’ din is-Soċjetà, imwaqqfa mill-Qaddej t’Alla Mons Ġużeppi De Piro, fl-1910.
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Islamic-Catholic Committee
We are publishing the statement on the Extraordinary Meeting of the Islamic-Catholic Liaison Committee, which took place on 10 July 2012. The Committee – established in 1995 by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and, on the Muslim side, by the International Islamic Forum for Dialogue – meets every year… Read more »
Twenty Caritas Malta volunteers working in various Diaconia Commissions all over Malta have acquired first hand experience of poverty and social exclusion issues in Italian cities by successfully completing a two-week Leonardo Mobility Traing Placement as guests of Caritas Europa.
Through this placement, the volunteers acquired new skills which would enable them to better work with the underprivileged in the local environment. … Read more »
Mons Charles J. Scicluna
The majority of bishops’ conferences in the Americas, Europe and Asia have complied with a Vatican mandate to draw up anti-abuse guidelines, said the Vatican’s top investigator of clerical sex abuse. Without counting Africa, “more than half of the conferences responded” by the May deadline, Msgr. Charles Scicluna of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said in an interview with the Italian monthly Catholic magazine Jesus… Read more »
