The 'progressive' and yet ever so divided Malta is debating whether happy couples should have maximum chances to give life to offspring. The debate also questions when a chemical process is to enjoy...

Hubris is a weakness to which politicians are particularly susceptible. This is mostly apparent in the tendency of politicians to pontificate from above to lesser (non-politician) mortals on...

It seems strange to be writing about Charles Thake in the past tense, he was always so full of life and indeed such a life-enhancer. Oh sure to live to 90 is a pretty good effort, but Charles, even in...

A real solution to a peace deal in the Middle East seems more unlikely every day. Only a few weeks ago, Israel's intelligence services had tracked an Iranian drone launched by Iran's elite Islamic...

Today, the solemnity of Pentecost, or rather the descent of the Holy Spirit on the fearful apostles, is surely an event of transformation and recreation. The Spirit transforms those men, closed in...

When we were still at home, my brothers, sisters and I used to call her ‘ma’ and among ourselves and our cousins, we always referred to her as ‘il-mamma’ … mother....

Alex Gobey   The first Memory Cafés were developed in The Netherlands in 2004, where educational talks were followed by a social gathering, and this idea quickly spread to other...

At what stage in the development of life in the womb, is the entity a human person? What is your view on the subject? Because this impinges significantly on what your future projects are.  I am...

Life is a special gift. However, what makes it so special are precisely those kind gestures and words that changes its taste altogether. This can be visible in the way we speak to one...

There was a time when Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary used to fight Bolshevism. The West was his promised land. That was then. Now it has morphed into an enemy. The West is now the site of...