A Church that is not united around its bishop is a sick Church.  Jesus wanted unity between the bishop and all the faithful, starting with priests and deacons. However the role of bishop is not a position of honor, it is a service.  Therefore, there is no room in the Church for a worldly mentality, for people who seek ‘ecclesiastical careers’, for bishops who instead of lowering themselves in service, are vain, proud and power-hungry. 

The Ordained Ministries and in particular the role of Bishops and episcopal collegiality were the focus of Pope Francis’ General Audience catechesis this week…

Rivalry and vainglory are two worms that weaken the Church; instead we must act in a spirit of humility and harmony, without seeking our own interests said Pope Francis Monday morning at Mass in Casa Santa Marta.

Taking a cue from the Letter of St. Paul to the Philippians, the Pope noted that a bishop’s joy lies in seeing love, unity and harmony in his Church…

Sitt entitajiet tal-Knisja bbenefikaw minn total ta’ €51,955 li nġabru fis-70 parroċċa ta’ Malta f’Jum il-Karità, fl-4 ta’ Mejju li għadda. Dawn id-donazzjonijiet ġew ippreżentati llum, it-Tlieta 4 ta’ Novembru 2014, mill-Isqof Charles J. Scicluna, Amministratur Appostoliku sede vacante, waqt laqgħa li saret fil-Kurja tal-Arċisqof.
Din l-offerta tal-poplu Nisrani ser tgħin lil dawk l-entitajiet tal-Knisja li jaħdmu ma’ persuni fil-bżonn, fosthom it-tfal, l-anżjani, il-familji, il-persuni b’dizabilità u r-refugjati…

In the over-informed society in which we live, the problem “is not finding a meaningful message, it is understanding it, in other words acknowledging it as important for me, as significant because of the multiple responses I get”. This was acknowledged by father Antonio Spadaro, director of the Jesuit fathers’ fortnightly magazine “La Civiltà Cattolica”, as he spoke earlier today at the meeting of the bishops in charge of social communication for the European Bishops Conferences, which is taking place in Athens (Greece) about “Communication as encounter, between authenticity and concreteness”, on the initiative of the Commission for Social Communication of Ccee (Council of European Bishops Conferences)…

Pope Francis marked the Feast of All Saints with Mass at Rome’s monumental Verano cemetery during which he hailed the world’s refugees and homeless as unknown saints and slammed the pervading ‘industry of destruction’ that excludes God and destroys the earth.

Below please find the Vatican Radio translation of the Holy Father’s unscripted homily:  

When in the First Reading we heard this voice of the Angel who cried out loud o the Four Angels who were given power to damage the land and the sea, “Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees” (Rev 7:3), this brought to mind a phrase that is not here but in everyone’s heart: men are capable of doing this better than you…

Nhar il-Ħadd 9 ta’ Novembru 2014, erbgħa seminaristi u patri Kapuċċin ser jiġu ordnati djakni minn Mons. Charles J. Scicluna, Isqof Titulari ta’ San Leone u Amministratur Appostoliku sede vacante, waqt quddiesa li tibda fis-6:00pm, fil-Parroċċa ta’ Kristu Re, Raħal Ġdid.

Ser jiġu ordnati djakni: Carlo Calleja mill-Parroċċa ta’ Stella Maris, tas-Sliema, Abraham D’Amato mill-Parroċċa ta’ San Pietru fil-Ktajjen, Birżebbuġa, Christopher Ellul mill-Parroċċa Kristu Re, Raħal Ġdid, Fra Bertrand Vella O.F.M…