The commission that Benedict XVI established in 2007 to study the major issues regarding the Church in China will meet this week in the Vatican.

The Vatican press office announced Saturday that the commission will hold a three-day meeting, beginning Monday.

The communiqué explained that the commission is constituted by “the heads of the dicasteries of the Roman Curia with competence in this area and by representatives of the Chinese episcopate and religious congregations.”

This will be the commission’s fourth meeting… Read more »

Il-Kummissjoni Djoċesana Familja din is-sena wkoll qed torganizza ezerċizzi spiritwali tar-Randan li huma ndirizzati għall-persuni separati. Dawn l-ezerċizzi bit-tema ‘Nimxi Waħdi?’ ser jitmexxew minn Mons. Anton Gouder. L-ezerċizzi jibdew għada t-Tnejn 11 ta’ April, sal-Ġimgħa 15 ta’ April, 2011, fis-7pm, fil-Knisja ta’ Sarrija, Floriana.

Matul dawn il-ħamest ijiem, Mons. Gouder ser jitkellem fost oħrajn dwar il-valur tat-tbatija, il-maħfra, u l-esperjenza t’Alla fil-ħajja tal-bniedem… Read more »

“Xi minn daqqiet, tingħata l-impressjoni li l-bniedem irid jagħmel bħal Pilatu u jaħsel idejh mill-immigranti li qed ifittxu li jaħarbu mill-Afrika ta’ Fuq.

“L-atteġġjament ta’ ħafna Maltin quddiem it-traġedja tal-immigranti ma jagħmilx sens, l-iktar meta wieħed iqis li li kieku ‘nqatlu’ xi tajr, ġustament kien isir plejtu; imbagħad, ‘jinqatlu’ dawn il-persuni kollha, u nibqgħu siekta!”

Hekk qal lil IL-ĠENSillum online l-Isqof ta’ Għawdex, Mons Mario Grech, b’reazzjoni għat-traġedji li seħħew fil-jiem li għaddew fiċ-ċentru tal-Mediterran, u fid-dawl ta’ stqarrija li ħarġu iktar kmieni din il-ġimgħa l-Isqfijiet Ewropej dwar il-ħtieġa ta’ għajnuna għal refuġjati li qed jaħarbu mill-Afrika… Read more »

Committees are needed to promote and defend families at the level of dioceses and parishes, according to representatives of the Vatican and Latin American bishops.

This was a conclusion from the March 29-31 meeting on the pastoral care of families held in Bogota. The president and secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Cardinal Ennio Antonelli and Bishop Jean Laffitte, participated.

A final statement from the meeting recognized the “real emergency” facing families due to “forces that distort and remove them from God’s original plan… Read more »

“Widespread corruption, poverty, social crisis, and suffocating political atmosphere” were the causes for the demonstrations on 25 January according to Card. Antonios Naguib, Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria; those demonstrations originated the “renewal movement” of young people in Tahrir Square, which now “risks being obscured”. Yesterday evening, on speaking to the bishops of COMECE meeting in plenary assembly in Brussels – dedicated to the Churches in Maghreb and the Middle East – the Cardinal warned about the risk that “Muslim Brothers may snatch this renewal from the hands of young Egyptians… Read more »