Religion
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Sunday, February 19, 2012 , by
Fr René Camilleri
Our integrity
Today’s readings: Is. 43, 18-19.21-22.24-25; 2 Cor. 1, 18-22; Mark 2, 1-12. Thomas Merton claimed that “there is in all things a hidden wholeness”. This hidden wholeness in us can remain hidden. We can persist in...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012 , by
Fr Joe Borg
A Catholic with no US candidate
Douglas Kmiec, the former US ambassador to Malta, who was unceremoniously called back to his country last year probably because someone in the State Department believed he was giving more time to his faith commitment than to his ambassadorial...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
Quotes and news
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a British Cabinet ‘minister without portfolio’ and co-chair of the ruling Conservative Party, wrote in the Daily Telegraph that Europe must counter the threat posed by a militant secularism that is on the rise by becoming...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012 , by
Fr René Camilleri
Church as catalyst
Today’s readings: Levitic. 13, 1-2.45-46; 1 Cor. 10, 31 – 11,1; Mk 1, 40-45. Very often we speak of identity and relevance as if they were mutually exclusive. Some may want to insist on identity as a distinguishing factor, creating...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012 , by
Fr Joe Borg
Am I my brother’s keeper?
Cain’s retort to God when asked about Abel is well known. His question flies in the face of everything Christian; nay, in the face of everything that is genuinely human. Solidarity (that is, being my brother’s keeper) is, after all...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Quotes and news
In a message to participants in a seminar on sexual abuse held last week at the Gregorian University, Pope Benedict said: “healing for victims (of abuse) must be of paramount concern in the Christian community, and it must go hand in hand with a...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012 , by
Fr René Camilleri
God’s insistent love
Today’s readings: Job 7, 1-4.6-7; 1 Cor. 9, 16-19. 22-23; Mark 1, 29-39. It does not always come naturally for us today to link the question of meaning in life to belief in God. We are tempted to engage in other ways of reasoning. B...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012 , by
Fr Joe Borg
A good Christian and a good commentator
Roamer did not meet his deadline with the editor yesterday. He only managed to meet it the Saturday before with great pain and suffering. He will not be meeting any other deadlines with The Sunday Times as last Monday, he met the m...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Quotes and news
Lija parish is holding a New Testament Reading Marathon next Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. at St Peter’s church, run by Dominican Sisters, next to the parish church. Besides being part of its evangelisation efforts it aims to...
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
Benedict chased demons?
A blessing by Pope Benedict XVI exorcised the devil from two howling men during a general audience in St Peter’s Square in 2009, a leading Catholic exorcist says in a new book. Extracts from the publication by Gabriele Amorth, a well-known...
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
The Church’s abuse scandals are declining
The Vatican’s top anti-abuse prosecutor said that the number of reported paedophilia cases involving clerics was declining but had reached alarming levels in the rest of society. Monsignor Charles Scicluna of the Congregation for the Doctr...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012 , by
Fr René Camilleri
Voices to listen to
Today’s readings: Deut. 18, 15-20; 1 Cor. 7, 32-35; Mark 1, 21-28. Entering Capernaum, Jesus risked provoking official hostility but this did not deter him from pressing his criticism and from publicly breaking the law. There was so...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012 , by
Fr Joe Borg
A yes and five ‘Nos’
On more than one occasion I wrote that the economic crisis that has bogged down the world for so long cannot be solved if it is only analysed from the perspective of economic theories. I had written about the importance of the eth...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Quotes and news
The Pope reminded a group of lawyers that they have a moral obligation to serve the truth. He was speaking at the conclusion of his regular weekly public audience on January 18 when he exhorted the lawyers present to do their work “in faithfulnes...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Shh! Pope asks people to be more quiet
Pope Benedict XVI hailed the benefits of silent reflection to stop being “bombarded” by information from the internet but said social networks could be useful modes of communication. “People today are frequently bombarded with answ...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Vatican’s news website gets up to 10,000 hits a day
The Vatican’s news website is getting between 8,000 and 10,000 hits a day with peaks of up to 16,000 hits over Christmas, the head of the Holy See’s social media department said. The website, which brings together all the Vatican’s officia...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012 , by
Fr René Camilleri
Shunning responsibility
Todays’ readings: Jonah 3, 1-5.10; 1 Cor. 7, 29-31; Mark 1, 14-20. Our big cities seem to present us with unending stumbling blocks when we speak of the possibility of bringing faith to modern or postmodern culture. But, maybe the p...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012 , by
Fr Joe Borg
Christian unity and a bit more
Thursday’s vote in Parliament is the subject most people are talking about. I guess a number of commentators today will contribute further to the discussion of this political crisis forced on the nation by the personal ambitions of a single Membe...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Quotes and news
The theme for this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is: ‘We will all be changed by the victory of our Lord Jesus Christ’. Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholics, “as individuals and in communities, to participate spiritually, and where...
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Sunday, January 15, 2012 , by
Fr René Camilleri
Our true self
Today’s readings: 1 Sam. 3, 3-10.19; 1 Cor. 6, 13-15.17-20; John 1, 35-42. Following Jesus Christ has always been marketed as closely bound to renunciation of self. Today’s Scriptures give a different version. It may seem at face va...
