News from the Church in Malta
27th February – 4th March, 2010
Saturday, 27 February
6.00 p.m. The Archbishop celebrates Mass at Ghaxaq Parish Church on the official opening of the Pastoral Visit.
7.30 p.m. The Archbishop meets members of Civil Society of Ghaxaq.
Monday, 1st March
7.30 p.m. The Archbishop holds meetings with the Parish Pastoral Council, Commission for the Implementation of the Synod and the Parish Economic Council of Għaxaq as part of his Pastoral Visit… Read more »
On Tuesday, 23rd February, 2010, the Interdiocesan Organising Committee and the National Organising Committee of the Pope’s visit to Malta organised a Press Briefing for Editors of local news agencies. During this well attended business breakfast, news editors were free to ask questions and mention their suggestions on the media arrangements for the Pope’s visit to Malta. The Archbishop’s delegate for Social Communications, Fr Charles Tabone O.P, and the Director General of the Department of Information, Mr Martin Bugelli, invited representatives of television, radio and print media to participate in a series of weekly press briefings to be held in the coming weeks as part of the build up leading to the Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Malta… Read more »
Euthanasia
The new guidelines published today by the Public Prosecutor Keir Starmer on the construction of the law on the right to life “undermine the ban on committing assisted suicide”: this is claimed by Paul Tully, Secretary General of the “Society for the protection of the unborn children”, one of England’s most important pro-life associations.
“As a matter of fact, the new policy makes assisted suicide no longer a crime in a wide range of circumstances”, Tully explained to SIR… Read more »
Malta's Grand Harbour
For the occasion of Benedict XVI’s apostolic trip to Malta, due to take place on 17 and 18 April to commemorate the 1950th anniversary of St. Paul’s shipwreck on the island, statistics have been published concerning the Catholic Church in that country. The information, updated to 31 December 2008, comes from the Central Statistica Office of the Church.
Malta, the capital city of which is Valletta, has a population of 443,000 of whom 418,000 (94.4 percent) are Catholic… Read more »
On Tuesday 24th January 2010, Archbishop Paul Cremona OP presided over a meeting with farmers from Burmarrad. This visit forms part of a series of meetings the Archbishop is holding in Burmarrad, as part of his Pastoral Visit in this locality. For Burmarrad Pastoral Visit Programme CLICK HERE.
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On Sunday, 21st February, 2010, the Cross and Icon, replicas of those given by Pope John Paul II during World Youth Day, were taken to the Parish Church of Saint Sebastian, Qormi. For this event, during which Mass was celebrated, the PLYG youth (Pastoral Liturgical Youth Group) from Saint Sebastian’s Parish grouped up with the youth from Saint George’s Parish. The Cross and Icon will be at Saint Sebastian’s Parish during this week… Read more »
On Tuesday, 23rd February, 2010, the Secretariat for Pastoral Activites for Workers organized a seminar on the theme ‘Workers and consumers…in conflict?’. Archbishop Paul Cremona OP emphasized that all workers have to be responsible. The Archbishop mentioned that social cases of families who cannot afford basic needs still exist, and it is essential for one to understand the causes leading to this… Read more »
Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI entrusted his spiritual exercises that started today to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, asking her to pray that Lent be a time lived “with joy and fruit.” The Pope said this today before praying the midday Angelus with those in St. Peter’s Square. It was his last public audience until next weekend, as he began this evening his seven-day spiritual exercises… Read more »
sexual education
Britain’s House of Commons is set to vote on legislation this week that would introduce a program of sex education to primary school children from as young as 5 years of age.
The “Children, Schools and Families Bill” also contains many other clauses which, critics say, is not so much a denial of Catholic teaching “as a whole uprooting of the natural law relationship between parents, children and the state.”
The bill, which Members of Parliament will vote on Tuesday, is causing widespread concern among United Kingdom priests and laity who see it as further erosion of legitimate freedoms… Read more »
On Saturday, 20th February, 2010, Archbishop Paul Cremona OP celebrated Mass at Burmarrad Parish, for the official opening of the Pastoral visit. In his homily, the Archbishop talked about the importance of having a unified community which works together with the Pastoral Commissions. In turn, the Archbishop said, these Commissions have to work together to achieve important goals for the greater good of the Comunity… Read more »
