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The Carmelite Scapular and the Popes’ devotion

Tuesday, 5 July 2016, 14:47 Last update: about 11 years ago

Throughout the years many confraternities, churches and chapels have been dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The devotion towards Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the Holy Scapular dates back more...

Mission Fund appeal

Sunday, 3 July 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

I am a Maltese missionary working in Pakistan. Our ministry is mainly in the fields of education, health and social work. We make many visits to families where we strengthen the people in their...

England’s ‘Freedom Day’

Sunday, 3 July 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

The British working class was the backbone of the army that maintained the Empire and, on 23 June 2016, that same working class backbone was mainly responsible for delivering ‘freedom day’...

Brexit and Maltese students at Warwick University

Sunday, 3 July 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

The effect of Brexit on Maltese who are studying, or who want to study, at a UK university is unlikely to be significant. Maltese students are valued and made welcome in the UK, for there is a mutual...

Nationalism is outdated

Sunday, 3 July 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

Like many others, I was shocked when I woke up on Friday morning to a headline stating that Brexit had won. Even more shockingly, far right parties in France, Denmark and The Netherlands have also...

Emergency contraception

Sunday, 3 July 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

In my article entitled Emergency Contraception in last week’s edition of this newspaper I stated that the use of Levonorgestrel was better than that of Ulipristal, in the case of use for certain...

Controversial Lija building application

Sunday, 3 July 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

I refer to the letter entitled Privacy will not be prejudiced from Mr Alfred Pulè (TMIS 26 June). Mr Pulè, the only one who speaks in favour of the application, tries to discredit...

The Lija ‘monstrosity’

Sunday, 3 July 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

I refer to the letter from Mr Alfred Pulè entitled ‘Privacy will not be prejudiced’ (TMIS, 26 June) regarding the monstrous application for three, five-storey blocks of flats in a...

No offshore investigations

Sunday, 3 July 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

Allow me to ask Acting Police Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar why it is, and rightly so, that the Police are conducting an Alfred Mifsud investigation (following declarations by Daphne Caruana Galizia...

The Provincial Chapter of the Maltese Capuchin Province

Sunday, 3 July 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago

From Monday, 6 June to Friday, 10 June, I had the joy of celebrating the Provincial Chapter with my Maltese Franciscan Capuchin brothers. This Chapter was the 68th one in the history of the Maltese...

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