Saturday April 21 – The sixth edition of the World Youth Day Song Contest was held in the Attard Parish auditorium. Eight local Christian bands performed live original songs to a sold-out auditorium. The theme of this year’s contest was: “Rejoice in the Lord, Always.” (Phil 4,4)

The songs were individually assessed by a seven-member jury of experts. Towards the end of the evening, the results announced ‘I Will Rejoice’, by The Pilgrimage, as Best Overall Song… Read more »

Pope Benedict XVI

Our ability to recognize the Risen Lord through His Word and in the Eucharist was the focus of Pope Benedict XVI’s Regina Caeli reflections this third Sunday of Easter. Speaking in French he said in the same way the Risen Jesus appeared among the apostles, still today “the Savior assures us of his real presence among us through the Word and the Eucharist” and just as “He gave peace “to the disciples, “He is still gifting us His peace and opens up life to happiness and invites us to become His witnesses to the ends of the earth, in our world marked by evil and suffering, pain and fear”… Read more »

Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. has appointed Fr Gordon Refalo as the new parish priest of Luqa (St. Andrew).

Fr Gordon was born in Sliema in 1961. He received his education at the Sisters of St Joseph and at St Aloysius College, Birkirkara. In 1984 he entered the Archbishop’s Seminary and was ordained to the priesthood in 1991.

Fr Gordon was first appointed assistant parish priest of Hamrun (St Gajetan) and served in Naxxar parish… Read more »

On Friday 20th April 2012, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. blessed and inaugurated the new primary school and vocations centre at the Archbishop’s Seminary in Tal-Virtù.

CLICK HERE to read the Archbishop’s message on this occasion.

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Sudan and South Sudan border

Saying civilian lives are at risk, Catholic leaders appealed to the international community to step up efforts to prevent full-scale war from erupting over disputed territory along the tenuous Sudan-South Sudan border.

Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Adwok Kur of Khartoum, Sudan, said in an email to Catholic News Service that tensions between Sudan and South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, could be defused if the United Nations and the African Union would mediate the differences and attempt to determine the proper border between the two countries… Read more »

On Tuesday 17th April 2012, the new Ambassador to France, H.E. Michel Vandepoorter, paid a courtesy visit to the Archbishop, at the Curia.

Click on the photos to enlarge. The photos of the Archbishop’s events may be purchased from PHOTOCITY, Valletta… Read more »