Here I am in Bonnie Scotland trying to convince as many Scots as possible, from taxi drivers and hotel employees to tourist guides and fast-food sellers, to vote yes in the forthcoming independence...

The environment was back on the national agenda this week. Earlier this week we were told that according to the findings of a Eurobarometre survey, the Maltese are “the most worried” EU...

Teaching: the second oldest profession and, arguably, the most noble.   There have been many famous teachers throughout the ages: Aesop, Socrates, Mr Jeremy Brown, Jesus. The latter’s...

On Saturday week, the beatification ceremony of the first bishop prelate of Opus Dei, Alvaro del Portillo, will take place in Madrid. He is a man to whom I am greatly indebted for personal favours...

We, a group of mothers, would like to voice our concerns on two main issues regarding the proposed law on the decriminalisation of drugs.   Firstly, this law gives the mistaken impression...

The war in Ukraine has already claimed 3,000 lives. It is now possible that the Russian President Vladimir Putin may choose to end this conflict in Ukraine that had already cost Russia billions of...

I was a young man of 20 when I joined the Jesuit order. A couple of years later, the superiors agreed to send me to India, after expressing a strong request to work among the poor in that...

Two eminent Christian philosophers and theologians who did their best to reconcile their philosophical and theological investigations were certainly Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas...

Augustinian spirituality in action   The world we are living in today presents many challenges which at times threaten human life and inflict unimaginable suffering especially on children...

        This week, the Malta Independent published a story where people were illegally parking cars under horse shelters near St Elmo in Valletta.   The...