These days I had the grace to be continually enriched by the most intriguing content of the book by Cardinal Walter Kasper, Mercy: The essence...

This year we are celebrating the Jubilee of Mercy initiated by Pope Francis. In the Bull of Indiction of the extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy issued on 11th April 2015, Pope Francis stated: “It is...

Dr Jason Azzopardi has placed Madam Justice Lorraine Schembri Orland in an awkward dilemma. Dr Azzopardi, on behalf of his client, former and now reinstated mayor of Victoria, Gozo Samuel Azzopardi,...

It is unbelievable that the country had to come to know that the director of the Financial Intelligence Unit, Dr Manfred Galdes, had resigned not from official sources such as the Ministry of Finance...

The Planning Authority today faces a litmus test when its board convenes to decide on two development applications of the type that have very much gripped the national attention over recent months:...

The anointment of Donald Trump as the Republican Presidential candidate raises some issues about future EU-US relations should he be elected to the highest office of his country.  First his...

Nothing of what is happening in the big wide world has percolated here. Nothing new there. One would have expected the churches in Malta to react with all expressions of sorrow including the...

In her article “Of spin doctors and real doctors”, Marisa Micallef writes about what her brother, who runs a neonatal department of a children’s hospital somewhere in Europe, told her (TMIS, 28 January)....

The convulsive changes that are taking place in the economies of most western countries as a result of globalisation are creating many victims, not just among those who used to be termed “working class” families, but increasingly among middle class ones. ...

After the almost hysterical climax of Saturday’s Malta Song for Europe when Olivia Lewis was crowned the winner (I shudder to think what would have happened if she hadn’t won!), the singers spent last Sunday ...