Article written by Monika Lender-Gołębiowska

When Bishop Adam Lepa (current senior bishop of the Archdiocese of Łódź, Poland) lectured on media pedagogy, he often used the term “personal mediasphere.” It means the media environment a person lives in and is surrounded by. It can be divided into four parts: iconosphere (the image environment), logosphere (the word environment), sonosphere (the sound environment), and finally, the galenosphere (the environment of silence)…

61% of the world’s population live in countries where religious freedom is not respected; in other words, 6 out of every 10 people around the world cannot express their faith with total freedom.

This is one of the key conclusions of the report on Religious Freedom in the World, which was officially made public today in Rome by the international Catholic pastoral charity and pontifical foundation ACN International, with simultaneous worldwide launches also taking place in many other locations such as London, Paris, Santiago, Manila and New York…

Merciful and modest. That’s how nuns, members of the Polish Catholic church and others are remembering Sister Cecylia Maria Roszak. They have been gathering in Krakow to bid her farewell. In remarks, the mother superior of her convent, Stanislawa Chruscicka, said Sister Cecylia would often say that “life is wonderful, however, too short.”

During her 110 years on this earth, the nun went through turbulent times…

Iċ-ċelebrazzjoni djoċesana fl-okkażjoni tal-festa ta’ Kristu Re mmexxija mill-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna, li saret il-Ħadd, 25 ta’ Novembru 2018, fil-Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann, il-Belt Valletta. Iċ-ċelebrazzjoni bdiet b’mixja ta’ fidi mill-monument ta’ Kristu Re sal-Konkatidral fejn tkantat it-Talba tal-Għasar u Mons. Arċisqof wassal il-messaġġ tiegħu f’din il-festa solenni li tagħlaq is-sena liturġika.

Ir-ritratti ser ikunu aċċessibbli fuq il-websajt tar-Ritratti Uffiċjali tal-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta…

Pope Francis prayed the Angelus on Sunday with thousands of pilgrims huddled under umbrellas in a rainy St. Peter’s Square. He even complemented their courage. “You’re brave to have come with this rain!” he said.

In his address ahead of the Angelus prayer, the Holy Father reflected on the day’s Gospel passage (Jn 18:33b-37) and the Solemnity of Christ the King…

Il-kunċert annwali mill-banda tal-Forzi Armati ta’ Malta b’risq id-Dar tal-Providenza fl-okkażjoni tal-Ġimgħa tal-Persuni b’Diżabilità, se jsir fil-Katidral tal-Imdina nhar il-Ġimgħa, 7 ta’ Diċembru 2018, fit-8pm.  Il-kunċert vokali u strumentali se jkun taħt il-patroċinju tal-President ta’ Malta, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca u Mons. Arċisqof Charles J Scicluna. Il-kunċert se jsir bil-korteżija tal-Kapitlu Metropolitan. Bħala parti mill-kunċert jitħabbar ir-rebbieħ tal-Premju Mons. Mikiel Azzopardi 2018…

A 4.5 tonne Christmas tree was put up in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday morning. The 23metre high tree travelled from the northern Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, more specifically, from Pordenone.

The Christmas tree, along with a life-sized nativity scene (which this year is being sculpted from sand) has been a tradition since 1982 when John Paul II was Pope…

L-Assemblea Djoċesana 2018 kompliet ilbieraħ, il-Ġimgħa, 23 ta’ Novembru, fejn ġew diskussi tliet dokumenti tas-Sinodu Djoċesan li ntemm fl-2003 u żewġ dokumenti oħra li saru wara s-Sinodu. Dawn huma: Viżjoni ta’ Knisja Komunjoni, Xandir tal-Kelma, Liturġija u Sagrament, Lejn Knisja Dejjem Aktar Inklużiva u Il-Wiċċ Diġitali tal-Mulej.

Dawn il-jumejn ta’ evalwazzjoni u diskussjoni huma l-bidu ta’ proċess li għandu jwassal biex id-dokumenti tas-Sinodu jiġu aġġornati b’mod li jirriflettu r-realtajiet soċjali preżenti filwaqt li joffru proposti u inizjattivi ġodda ta’ kif il-Knisja twieġeb għalihom…