The first wave of our democratic development was the decades-long struggle to gain full sovereign rights as a people by establishing a Constitution, a Parliament, freedom of speech and expression and...

By way of a prologue and an introduction, I must first of all strongly affirm and confirm my unalterable belief and conviction that all media, written or spoken, must enjoy full and absolute freedom...

I have recently returned from a trip to South India where I was a volunteer in the Mission Rabies Campaign. Mission Rabies is a three-year campaign pioneered by WVS (World Veterinary Service) and Dogs...

One cannot underestimate the changes made at many levels in the Roman Catholic Church since the election of Pope Francis:   ·        Simple living,...

On Friday, the Church celebrated the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi. The name Francis means a great deal nowadays not merely to us Franciscans but also to many believers and non-believers alike. It...

I am probably going to upset some ‘friends’ today. I don’t mean my real life friends, but the virtual ones. It’s probably my mature years, but I just cannot stand that silly...

Greetings from Pakistan!   With heartfelt gratitude I thank, through your newspaper, our dear friends and benefactors who send donations to Mission Fund based in Mosta.   In August...

Silvio Berlusconi performed the mother of all u-turns this week. He grossly over-estimated his hold on Italian politics and took too much for granted regarding where the loyalty of his troops lies....

Protecting the environment is no easy task. We have, over the past few years, been inundated with information that is often too overwhelmingly scientific in terms that make it difficult for us to...

This week, a colleague of mine picked up a discussion about freedom and the way that we others tended to base our concepts of freedom on the predetermination based on the hope in God, or providence as...