Pope Benedict XVI

Benedict XVI’s first 2010 trip out of Italy will bring him to Malta, April 17-18. The visit will mark the 1,950th anniversary of St. Paul’s shipwreck there, which tradition holds to have taken place in A.D. 60. Paul was headed to Rome, but instead was welcomed by the local population and spent three months evangelizing the archipelago, which is still majority Catholic… Read more »

Applications for admission to classes at Kindergarten One, Kindergarten Two (Pregrade), and Year 1 level of Church Schools in Malta in 2010 will be received at the Secretariat for Catholic Education, Archbishop’s Curia, Floriana. The criteria for entry will remain those established in recent years: brothers and sisters in the same school, children from Church Homes, three children in every class on the criteria of families with special needs, and the rest by ballot… Read more »

Pope Benedict XVI

The year beginning today promises to be the busiest yet for Benedict XVI’s pontificate, as the almost-83-year-old-Pope is planning four international trips and a synod on the Middle East.

The year 2010 looks to be one of the most intense of his five years in the Chair of Peter. The Pope will turn 83 on April 16, but this does not affect how quickly his calendar fills up… Read more »

€617,585 were raised yesterday during the New Year’s Open Day organised  by Radio RTK for the Dar tal-Providenza in Siggiewi. This was the largest sum ever collected in fourteen annual editions. During the day, huge crowds filled the big tent in the parking lot of the Home. The Director, Fr Martin Micallef, thanked the hundred of volunteers who helped organise this Open Day, and most of all the Maltese people, including Maltese emigrants who generously gave their donations and who once again expressed their values of solidarity and generosity with the Dar tal-Providenza… Read more »

On New Year’s day, in the Archbishop’s Palace, Valletta, Archbishop Paul Cremona OP, Archbishop Emeritus Joseph Mercieca and Bishop Annetto Depasquale welcomed the representatives of civil authorities and constituted bodies to exchange greetings for the New Year, 2010.

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On January 1st 2010, Dar tal-Providenza in Siggiewi will host thousands of people for the next Open Day organized by Radio RTK to collect funds for the Home. The live television broadcast will start at 9.00am with Holy Mass from the chapel of the Home and will continue up to just after midnight when the total sum collected during the day will be announced… Read more »