Europe is today more than ever a complex reality. “Plural” Europe also includes the need to tackle challenges together. A pluralist culture strongly marked by secularism and individualism is gaining ground. Nevertheless, the will to share common values, founded in Truth, along with desire for God is growing more and more, especially among younger generations. The Catholic Church recognizes in the present time an opportunity to live and witness with renewed commitment the joy of the Gospel of Jesus: a God who has assumed the human condition out of love, providing humankind with his support even at the most difficult times of history…

L-eks kelliem tal-Papa San Ġwanni Pawlu II,  Dr Joaquìn Navarro-Valls, miet fl-età ta’ 80 sena.

Is-suċċessur preżenti tiegħu tas-Santa Sede, id-Direttur Greg Burke, ħabbar dan ilbieraħ filgħaxija permezz ta’ tweet: 

Navarro-Valls, li hu membru tal-Opus Dei, ġurnalist Spanjol, tabib u psikjatra, ġie dijanjostikat li għandu l-kanċer proprju ftit tal-ġimgħat ilu.

Hu miet l-Erbgħa filgħaxija, 5 ta’ Lulju 2017, fid-8:41 p.m…

Aloysius Schwartz had a desire to become a priest from an early age. As time passed, his desire became more specific: He wanted to be a priest of the poor.

During high school he joined St Charles Minor Seminary in Catonsville, Maryland, but after graduation felt an attraction to the Maryknoll Missionaries. He attended Maryknoll College to receive his bachelor’s degree, but then completed his theological studies in Belgium at Louvain University…

Il-Papa Franġisku ħareġ filmat dwar l-intenzjoni ta’ talb tiegħu għal matul ix-xahar ta’ Lulju.

Is-seba’ xahar tas-sena 2017, il-Papa Franġisku ddeċieda li jiddedika talbu għal dawk li huma mbiegħda mill-fidi Nisranija: “għal dawk ħutna li tbiegħdu mill-fidi, permezz tat-talb tagħna u x-xhieda tal-Evanġelu, jalla jiskopru mill-ġdid is-sbuħija tal-ħajja Nisranija.”

Hawn taħt hawn il-messaġġ tal-Papa Franġisku:

“Let us never forget that our joy is Jesus Christ — his faithful and inexhaustible love…