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Social epigenetics

Sunday, 23 April 2017, 08:57 Last update: about 11 years ago Michael Asciak

When Gregory Mendel, the father of modern genetics and a Catholic priest to boot, established the ways of genetic inheritance, we thought that we had understood the whole way that our inheritance...

From mudslinging to real facts

Sunday, 23 April 2017, 08:41 Last update: about 11 years ago Justyne Caruana

Throughout my years of serving in the political arena, I have learned to be positive after surviving unfair campaigns. No one has ever dared attack my performance and my personal integrity but could...

Mariolatry

Sunday, 23 April 2017, 07:55 Last update: about 11 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 11 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 11 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...

The spread of boutique hotels

Thursday, 20 April 2017, 10:10 Last update: about 11 years ago

Last week we reported that the hallowed Macina building in Senglea is being restored and renovated to become an exclusive Cugo Gran Hotel. Although noteworthy, this is not the only development...

Muscat: between words and fiction

Thursday, 20 April 2017, 08:49 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Mangion

Barely three weeks after Joseph Muscat was elected and sworn in as Prime Minister he was reported in the local media to have pledged “to hold out the hand of friendship to the Nationalist...

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