• The Vatican announced on Friday that the newly established commission for the study of the female diaconate was holding its first meeting at the offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

  The two day meeting brings together the 12 members of the commission, under the presidency of Jesuit Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, who also serves as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith…

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• Ġentilment ninfurmawkom li l-Ġimgħa 2 ta’ Diċembru 2016, il-Kurja tal-Arċisqof ser tkun magħluqa. Il-Kurja terġa tiftaħ l-għada, il-Sibt 3 ta’ Diċembru 2016, sa nofsinhar.

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• Nhar is-Sibt 3 ta’ Diċembru 2016, il-Fondazzjoni Life Network Foundation Malta se torganizza ‘Candlelight March’ biex tfakkar id-dritt tal-ħajja mill-konċepiment sal-mewt. L-attività ser tibda minn quddiem il-Berġa ta’ Kastilja, fil-5:30p.m.

  Kulħadd mistieden jattendi.

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• Drug dependency is a ‘new form of slavery’ and a ‘wound in our society’ which should be combatted with education and rehabilitation.

  That was Pope Francis’ message to a Vatican conference called ‘Narcotics: Problems and Solutions of this Global Issue’, which was hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on 23-24 November.

  Pope Francis told the two-day conference on Narcotics that those who fall into the snares of drugs are victims who have “lost their freedom” in return for “a new form of slavery”…

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• Nhar l-Erbgħa 23 ta’ Novembru 2016, ittella’ seminar dwar il-meditazzjoni fl-iskejjel li għalih attendew madwar 110 għalliem, chaplains u membri tac-chaplaincy teams minn 50 skola tal-Knisja, tal-Istat u Indipendenti. Is-seminar sar f’Mount St Joseph, il-Mosta. Dan is-seminar sar wara l-esperjenzi li membri tas-Segretarjat għall-Edukazzjoni kellhom fl-iskejjel bil-Prayer Spaces in Schools​, l-​‘Ispiritual Development in Schools Unit​’​ tas-Segretarjat. 

  Is-Sur Tonio Caruana SDC, għalliem fl-iskola St Michael’s, qasam ma’ dawk preżenti l-esperjenza tiegħu u t-teknika kif tagħmel il-meditazzjoni skont it-tradizzjoni Benedittina, u kif twassal it-tfal biex jimmeditaw…

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• Pope Francis on Wednesday held his weekly General Audience in the Paul VI Hall, where he spoke on two more of the Spiritual Works of Mercy: “Counseling the Doubtful” and “Instructing the Ignorant.”

  Here is the English language summary of the Pope’s address:

  Dear Brothers and Sisters:  Among the spiritual works of mercy, we now consider those of counselling the doubtful and instructing the ignorant.  These two works are related and both can be practised daily in our families and communities.  The Church’s mission of evangelization has always been accompanied by teaching and the founding of schools, since education promotes the dignity of the person and provides for the full development of his or her God-given gifts.  Illiteracy and lack of access to education are in fact a form of poverty and injustice…

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