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Not a single shred of proof

Sunday, 14 May 2017, 12:54 Last update: about 10 years ago

Simon Busuttil keeps trying to build mountains out of a few grains of sand. Even out of thin air. On Xarabank, all we saw from Simon Busuttil were theatricals – more fitting on a stage...

What the hell do you have to lose?

Sunday, 7 May 2017, 09:14 Last update: about 10 years ago

What? You must be joking! Waste my precious electoral vote on them! Tahraqnix Man!   I wasn’t going around Republic Street conducting my own private opinion poll and perhaps risk...

The (moral) health of the nation

Sunday, 7 May 2017, 09:13 Last update: about 10 years ago

Anthony Zarb Dimech   Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts –...

Is the Planning Authority a failed institution?

Sunday, 7 May 2017, 09:12 Last update: about 10 years ago

We are hearing lots of words about failed institutions and it is important that the common citizen worries about this situation. Even a good Christian should use the following yardstick to see whether...

Who owns the Maltese Islands?

Sunday, 30 April 2017, 08:03 Last update: about 10 years ago

Anthony Zarb Dimech   Way back, when I was a student in public administration, I used to think and believe that the political system of Malta was based on some magical model where the...

God’s fruitful silence

Sunday, 30 April 2017, 08:02 Last update: about 10 years ago

Personally speaking, this Easter has been a great spiritual blessing. A case in point was my participation in the Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great of the Holy and Great Saturday at...

Mariolatry

Sunday, 23 April 2017, 07:55 Last update: about 10 years ago

Throughout all the transformations of religion, the Mother Goddess has remained. In our times, this cult manifests itself through Mariolatry. In Malta, Mariolatry can be witnessed in the dreary...

Fantastic 8 March 2017

Sunday, 23 April 2017, 07:53 Last update: about 10 years ago

I dreamt that J. Guillaumier dropped his pen in a teacup at 8am after ruminating on the words of Pope Francis, less than two months after his election, that Christians should see atheists as good...

Divine Mercy Sunday

Sunday, 23 April 2017, 07:51 Last update: about 10 years ago

Today, the Second Sunday of Easter, the Church celebrates Divine Mercy Sunday. In his homily at Saint Faustina's canonization, Saint John Paul II declared that "this Second Sunday of Easter from...

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