2014 Archives

Messaġġ tal-Arċisqof Pawlu Cremona waqt l-Assemblea Djoċesana 2014

10/10/2014

Skola Santa Monika, Birkirkara
10 ta’ Ottubru 2014

Alla l-imbierek ħalaq id-dinja b’ħafna mħabba. Huwa ried li d-dinja tkun tista’ titmexxa skont il-pjan tiegħU għal ġid tal-bnedmin uliedu. Ried li jkun hemm armonija bejn il-bnedmin. B’xorti ħażina dan ma seħħx. Għalhekk bagħat lil Ibnu biex jgħallima ngħixu skont il-pjan tiegħu, u Ġesù waqqaf saltna ta’ ġustizzja u paċi mibnija fuq l-imħabba…

10/10/2014

Reference is made to what the President of the Malta Union of Teachers is reported to have said about the teaching of religion in state schools (Times of Malta – October 10, 2014). Mr Kevin Bonello said that “It was scandalous that the Education Department did not have control over the religion classes syllabus, but this was instead in the Curia’s hands”.
The fact is that there exists an Agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Malta on Catholic Religious Instruction and Education in Church Schools, signed in 1989…

10/10/2014

How can the Church remain true to its core beliefs while showing mercy, compassion and forgiveness to individuals who fail, in so many ways, to live up its high ideals? That’s the question at the heart of the Synod of Bishops on the Family which is moving towards the conclusion of its first week’s work. To explore these issues at the daily press briefing on Thursday, the head of the Vatican press office Fr Federico Lombardi and his assistants were joined by the head of the Canadian Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Paul-André Durocher and Italian Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, as Philippa Hitchen reports….
‘Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on the Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?’ Those words of Jesus to the Pharisees were used by Cardinal Coccopalmerio on Thursday to throw light on the dilemma facing Synod Fathers as they struggle to distinguish between Church doctrine and its practical application to people in their care…

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09/10/2014

What can the Church do to accompany families in difficult pastoral situations such as the separated, divorced or divorced and remarried, single parents, teen mothers, children from broken homes? What is the Churches pastoral outreach concerning unions of persons of the same sex? These were the topics of discussion in the 8th General Congregation of the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on ‘The pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelization’…

09/10/2014

Pope Francis appealed for Christian unity on Wednesday pointing out that divisions between Christians of different denominations are hurtful for the Church and for Christ.
Speaking to the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the weekly General Audience, the Pope said that we must not forget that there are many who belong to different confessions who share our faith in Christ…

08/10/2014

Il-laqgħa ta’ djalogu ekumeniku minn ‘Christians Together in Malta’ ser tinżamm nhar il-Ħamis, 16 ta’ Ottubru 2014, bejn is-6.30 u s-7.30pm, f’St. Andrews House, Triq l-Ifran, Valletta (mal-kantuniera ta’ St Andrews Scots Church). Matul din il-laqgħa ser tiġi d-diskussa t-tema “Christians’ response to war”. Kulħadd huwa mistieden jattendi.

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Direttur: Lasse Hallstrom
Atturi: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon
Ħin: 122 minuti

Klassifika taċ-Ċensura: 12A
Klassifika tal-Knisja: 12A

Il-familja Indjana Kadam ikollhom restaurant fl-Indja. Meta jinqala l-inkwiet politiku fl-Indja, ir-restaurant tagħhom jispiċċa jingħata n-nar u jinħaraq. Għalhekk il-familja Kadam, magħmula mill-missier u t-tlett uliedu, Mukthar, Mahira, u Hassan, jitilqu lejn l-Ewropa u jmorru joqgħodu f’belt żgħira fin-nofsinhar ta’ Franza…

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