PM Joseph Muscat has announced that the government will be launching the biggest open space project in a generation. That’s all well and good, but should it not be the other way around? Should...

Every year, during ‘Holy Week’, we are regaled with stories of the ‘miraculous’ statue of the ‘ecce homo’ in Valletta  and the ‘miraculous’...

I would like to say a big Thank You to the Mission Fund (Malta) for their recent very generous financial support for our work at ‘The Bamboo School’ in the West of Thailand, very near the...

It was Wednesday, April 3, feastday of the Bishop and Doctor of the Church, St. Isidore, and the Dominican missionary and logician, Saint Vincent Ferrer.  On that day Divine Providence...

How powerful is this verse that initiates the Gospel with which the Church jubilantly proclaims today’s solemnity of Easter Sunday! This first verse is taken from the penultimate chapter of...

National Party Euro-Parliament candidate Peter Aguis was spot on in highlighting the unequal race in spending on the campaign by candidates for the European Parliament (TMIS 14 April). A clever ploy...

The Minister for Transport, Ian Borg, has said that a metro connection to Gozo is not economically feasible. I would like to ask: Is the massive project being undertaken on the widening of roads in...

Malta’s economic success is attributable to the wise economic decisions that successive governments (Nationalist and Labour alike) have taken to promote Malta’s unique and special position...

  Now that the Holy Week has started, precisely on Palm Sunday, it is important to see how the liturgy, especially the office of readings, helps us appreciate all the more the powerful...

As Holy Week starts today, I cannot fail to see the intimate connection between forgiveness and the Paschal Mystery. Jesus suffered, was slain and rose from the dead, forgiving his enemies! How...