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REGISTRATION OPENS FOR 2012 INTERNATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

02/06/2011

Registration has officially opened for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress in 2012, and organizers hope the event will help reinvigorate the Irish church. Delegates from some 70 countries met June 1-3 to hear plans for the events that Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin described as a “vital element in the reform agenda of the Irish church.” Participants at the June 10-17, 2012, congress will hear reflections, catechesis and workshops from leading prelates and theologians… Read more »

CHURCH MUST FIND MORE EFFECTIVE WAYS TO EVANGELIZE

02/06/2011

Evangelisation

New evangelization means finding the most effective ways to proclaim the Gospel to a world that is either too distracted or too blind to see the divine, Pope Benedict XVI said. Today’s spiritual crisis is marked by people excluding God from their lives, “generalized indifference” toward Christianity and stringently pushing faith from the public to the private sphere, he said. The church will have to “find ways to make the proclamation of salvation more effective,” he told members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization… Read more »

VATICAN AIDS CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON NEED TO CHANGE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR

01/06/2011

Back-to-back speeches at a Vatican AIDS conference illustrated that condoms in AIDS prevention remains a sensitive issue for both church officials and international health experts. Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS, told conference participants May 28 that he was delighted when Pope Benedict XVI, in his recent book-length interview, “Light of the World,” hypothesized that use of a condom to prevent infection could be a first step toward moral responsibility… Read more »

EVANGELIZATION’S SOURCE: POPE’S JOURNEY TO CROATIA HIGHLIGHTS FAMILY

31/05/2011

Families in Croatia

The focus of Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Zagreb, Croatia, June 4-5 will be on the family and building a community with Christian values. In the 84-year-old pope’s 19th trip abroad and his 13th to a European country, he also will continue to underline the importance he places on reviving Europe’s Christian roots. Even though Croatia is an overwhelmingly Catholic country, it has undergone hardships that have tested its foothold on faith: two World Wars, a Nazi invasion and then communist rule under the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia… Read more »

FOUR PARISHES CELEBRATE A YEAR OF VOLUNTARY WORK AT DAR TAL-PROVIDENZA

30/05/2011

Il-parroċċi tal-Għargħur, Mġarr, Mosta u Naxxar, iktar kmieni dan ix-xahar fakkru s-Sena tal-Volontarjat permezz ta’ ċelebrazzjoni fid-Dar tal-Providenza u ħadu din l-okkażjoni biex jagħtu donazzjoni lil din l-opra karitattevoli tal-Knisja f’Malta.

F’kummenti lil IL-ĠENSillum online, Victor Formosa, il-kelliemi għal din id-Dar, fisser li f’attività sempliċi imma “sinjifikattiva”, madwar 200 ruħ minn dawn l-erba’ parroċċi li jiffurmaw l-Unità numru 7 ngħaqdu mal-Arċiprieti u l-Kappillani tagħhom fid-Dar tal-Providenza biex ifakkru s-Sena Ewropea tal-Volontarjat… Read more »

SOCIO-RELIGIOUS PROGRAMMES

30/05/2011

SEJJAĦTLI –  on FAVOURITE TV – on Thursday  2nd June at 9.00pm with a repeat on Sunday at 4.00pm.

Theme: Journalism and Media

Presentor: Joyce Cassar with the participation of resident guest Fr. Rene Camilleri

Information: This week’s programme will focus on the responsibility of journalists and broadcasters to deliver the truth.  But is this the case?  … Read more »

NEW PARISH PRIEST FOR SLIEMA

25/05/2011

Mons. Arċisqof Pawlu Cremona O.P. innomina lil Patri Richard Stanely Grech ofm bħala Kappillan tal-Parroċċa Madonna tas-Sacro Cuor, Sliema.

Patri Richard twieled nhar it-28 ta’ Ottubru 1955 minn Pawlu u Mary nee Vella. Daħal mal-Patrijiet Franġiskani Minuri u beda n-novizzjat fit-22 t’Ottubru 1972 fil-kunvent ta’ Sant’Antnin ġewwa Għawdex. Għamel l-istudji tiegħu fl-Istitut Filosofiku u Teoloġiku tal-Patrijiet Franġiskani Minuri ġewwa r-Rabat u fl-Istitut Internazzjonali San Salvatur f’Ġerusalemm.  … Read more »

GATHERING OF FAMILIES IN 2012 TO LOOK AT FAMILY, WORK, FREE TIME

25/05/2011

Catholics, like everyone, often are challenged to balance the demands of family, work and free time, but they also have an obligation to show others there is a Christian approach to all three, said Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi of Milan. “Our being Catholic should become a unique and original way of living the challenges that face every family,” the cardinal said at a Vatican news conference May 24 to discuss plans for the World Meeting of Families 2012… Read more »