Il-Kulleġġ tal-Kappillani tal-Knisja f’Malta għadu kemm ħatar Kunsill ġdid għas-snin 2018 – 2020.  Il-Kunsill tal-Kappillani huwa ffurmat minn seba’ membri tal-Kulleġġ tal-Kappillani li hu magħmul mis-70 kappillan tal-parroċċi f’Malta. Il-Kunsill hu ffurmat hekk:

President: Dun Anton Galea Scannura
Viċi President: Dun Ewkarist Zammit
Segretarju tal-Kulleġġ: Dun Mario Mangion
Kaxxier: Patri Christian Borg OFM Conv
Segretarju tal-Kunsill: Dun Joe Mizzi
Membri: Dun Josef Mifsud u Patri Joe Saliba O.Carm

Il-Kunsill huwa responsabbli li janalizza l-ħwejjeġ li jolqtu l-ħidma pastorali fil-parroċċi u t-tmexxija tal-Kulleġġ u jkun ta’ għajnuna għall-Arċisqof u għall-kappillani kollha fil-ħidma pastorali tagħhom…

The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Pope Francis has recognized a second miracle allowing five people on the path to sainthood to be canonised, the most prominent being Bl. Pope Paul VI and Bl. Oscar Romero.

With a second miracle approved, the path has been cleared for a date to be set for the canonization of each of the five candidates, allowing them to officially be declared a saint…

Il-Qdusija Tiegħu, il-Papa Franġisku, ħatar lill-Arċisqof Joseph Spiteri, Arċisqof Titulari ta’ Serta u preżentament Nunzju Appostoliku fil-Kosta tal-Ivorju, bħala n-Nunzju Appostoliku l-ġdid għas-Santa Sede fil-Libanu.

Mons. Joseph Spiteri twieled Tas-Sliema fl-1959 u ġie ordnat saċerdot fl-1984. Wara l-istudji tiegħu fil-Liġi Kanonika, huwa ngħaqad mal-korp diplomatiku tas-Santa Sede, fejn ta servizz fil-Panama, l-Iraq, il-Messiku, il-Portugall, il-Greċja u l-Venezwela.

Fl-2009 Mons…

God has a life project for everyone! Yesterday as today, Christ calls men and women to respond to their personal “call from God”. In Tirana, about fifty delegates representing their Catholic Bishops’ Conferences, coming from 17 European countries, gathered at the invitation of H.E. Msgr. Ottavio Vitale, Bishop of Lehzë and delegate for the vocational ministry of the Albanian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, to talk about the beauty of the Christian vocation…

Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič’s third statement defends the rights of children. This statement follows one consisting in the affirmation of the role of culture in society and a second covering freedom of religion or belief.

25% of children suffer from humanitarian disasters

Responding to the High Commissioner’s Report on the protection of children’s rights in humanitarian situations, Archbishop Jurkovič says that the Holy See believes that while there has been some progress, “we are deeply concerned by the fact that, in 2017, around 535 million children were affected by humanitarian disasters; this represents one child out of four in the world.”

The growing number of humanitarian situations—war, local crises, natural disasters—affect “too many people, especially our children, our future.” As a result, a growing number of children are refugees, migrants, internally displaced, orphaned…