• • Pope Francis held his weekly General Audience on Wednesday, during which he focused his catechetical reflections on the upcoming Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, which opens on December 8th, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.

    In an impassioned address to the thousands of faithful pilgrims and tourists on hand, in which he departed frequently from his prepared text to emphasize his points, Pope Francis said, “If the door of God’s mercy is always open, even so must be the doors of our churches, the love of our communities, our parishes, our institutions, our dioceses, for when they are, we can all go out to bring this mercy of God [to those who most need it]…

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• Nhar it-Tlieta 17 ta’ Novembru 2015, l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ffirma l-ktieb tal-kondoljanzi fl-Ambaxxata tar-Repubblika ta’ Franza, wara l-attakki terroristiċi ta’ nhar il-Ġimgħa 13 ta’ Novembru. 

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• Nhar it-Tlieta 17 ta’ Novembru 2015, saret laqgħa ilbieraħ filgħaxija fil-bini tal-Parlament, u li matulha r-Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Agius ippreżenta lill-Onor. Prim Ministru Joseph Muscat id-dokument ta’ pożizzjoni dwar il-Legizlazzjoni li Tirregola l-Prokreazzjoni Umana Assistita. Dan id-dokument tħejja minn grupp ta’ 22 espert fl-oqsma tal-mediċina, il-liġi, il-psikoloġija, il-politika soċjali, l-istudji tal-familja, l-istudji tad-diżabiltà, il-filosofija u t-teoloġija. Dan il-grupp ta’ esperti ġie mqabbad mill-Konferenza Episkopali Maltija biex jipprepara studju fuq it-tibdil li l-Gvern jidher li qed iħejji biex idaħħal fl-Att dwar il-Protezzjoni tal-Embrijuni (2012)…

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• The importance of safeguarding our Christian identity and not living double lives: that was the theme at the heart of Pope Francis’ homily at the Santa Marta Mass on Tuesday morning. The Pope based his words on the daily readings which focus on the need for coherence between our spiritual and our temporal lives.

  Pope Francis began by reflecting on the elderly Jewish Rabbi Eleazar who chose to be martyred rather than submit to the unjust laws that we read about in the second book of Macceabees…

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• The single thought, humanism that takes the place of Jesus, destroys the Christian identity. We don’t put that identity card up for auction. Those were the words of Pope Francis on Monday during  Mass at the Casa Santa Marta.

  Worldliness leads to the single thought and apostasy

  The first reading of the day from the first Book of the Maccabees, tells of “a root of evil” that arose in those days: the Hellenistic King Antiochus Epiphanes imposes pagan customs in Israel, to the ” chosen people “, that is, the” Church of that time…

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