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 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 »

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone

“The political calling is a calling to the common good and the salvation of society. A good that cannot but be cast into the future. Young people are not, then, mere onlookers, they are the protagonists of politics, which cannot either look to the past or be flattened on to the present”. It was recalled this afternoon by card. Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican Secretary of State, as he spoke in Riccione at the yearly gathering of the politicians’ coordination “Rete Italia”… Read more »