On Wednesday, 10th March, 2010, Archbishop Paul Cremona O.P. celebrated Mass at Christ the King Parish, Paola, for those for those who participate in the organisation of Feasts.

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Married person participating in online conference

This month, couples are being offered a chance to strengthen their marriages from within their own homes in a series that combines John Paul II’s teachings with psychology’s clinical experience.

The Institute for Marital Healing, directed by Catholic psychiatrist Richard Fitzgibbons, will begin its first series of free webinars on March 27 with a conference on the theme, “The Angry Spouse.”  Fitzgibbons, who is also a consultant for the Holy See’s Congregation for Clergy, explained to ZENIT that this series allows couples to participate anonymously from their own homes, with opportunities to email comments and questions… Read more »

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Before the “loss of the sense of sin” and “the crisis” of “the sacrament of penance” there is a need to establish a “dialogue of salvation” with penitents, following the example of the Holy Curé of Ars, and to “get back to the confessional” also seen as a “place in which to ‘dwell’ more often”.

Benedict XVI addressed this invitation to the participants in the course promoted by the Pontifical Penitentiary received in audience today… Read more »

vatican

About 100 traditionalist Anglican parishes in the United States have decided to join the Catholic Church as a group. Meeting in Orlando, the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America voted to seek entry into the Catholic Church under the guidelines established in Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic constitution “Anglicanorum Coetibus” (“Groups of Anglicans”), said a March 3 statement.

The Anglican Church in America is part of the Traditional Anglican Communion, a group of churches which separated from the worldwide Anglican Communion in 1991… Read more »

Fr Federico Lombardi

“Events” that “mobilise the Church to find appropriate responses” but “should be placed in a more wide-ranging context that concerns the protection of children and young people from sexual abuse in society as a whole”. In a statement published on the Vatican Radio website (Radiovaticana.org), Father Federico Lombardi describes in these terms “the very serious question of the sexual abuse of minors in institutions run by ecclesiastical bodies and by people with positions of responsibility within the Church, priests in particular” that for some months “has been investing the Church and society in Ireland” and that over recent weeks has also involved the Church in certain central European countries”: Germany, Austria and Holland… Read more »

Voting in UK

The bishops of England and Wales are offering a perspective on the key issues of the June general election, releasing this week a 19-page booklet called “Choosing the Common Good.”

The booklet aims to present “some of the underlying principles and values by which we seek to construct a just and civil society,” it notes. The publication anticipates not only the general election, but also Benedict XVI’s trip to the United Kingdom, planned for September… Read more »

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It-Tnejn 8 ta’ Marzu: “Alla joħloq – Għajta għadha tidwi”

Il-Ħamis 11 ta’ Marzu: “L-Ambjent – Merżuq jew  kumpens?”

It-Tnejn 15 ta’ Marzu: “Jeħtieġ li naħbtu ma’ blata!”

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