With deep joy I offer Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger my warm congratulations and most fervent good wishes on the happy event of his election to the papacy....

On behalf of the people of La Tomilla in Arequipa, Peru, where I have been working for the last three years, I would like to thank Fr Louis Mallia, director of Centru Animazzjoni Missjunarja....

I really appreciate the way the Malta Labour Party decided to tackle the ratification of the treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe...

The scenes we witnessed after the death of the beloved Pope John Paul II are still fresh in our minds. ...

On the occasion of the feast of St Publius, Patron Saint of Floriana (24 April), this is what Pope John Paul II said about his visit to Malta after he said mass on St Publius Square (Il-Fosos) in May 1990....

After the media barrage depicting Pope John Paul II as a contemporary saint and uncritically presenting the pomp and mysticism of the Vatican’s funeral rites, one should now look seriously at the expectations of the resulting political issues....

It was the opportunity of a lifetime and one I wouldn’t have missed for the world....

The Catholic Church has, officially, approximately one billion faithful. In reality everyone is well aware (and when I write “everyone” it indeed implies everyone because it is an established fact) that this is not the case. ...

I got a parking ticket because I parked in a “non-parking bay”(so I have been told) near the swings in Rabat. ...

The dead they sleep, a long, long sleep;The dead they rest, and their rest is deep;The dead have peace, but the living weep.Samuel Hoffenstein...