From the Gospel: Sauntering in true freedom How Valletta’s Sunday promenade became a living parable of liberation On any given Sunday at 10:30 a.m., the bells of St John’s Co-Cathedral have barely finished their cascade when a slow tide of Maltese families, Ghana-band guitar cases, and selfie-snapping cruise-ship passengers begins to seep out of Republic…
# Malta’s Millennials Wake Up to a New Kind of Saint While most of us were still rubbing the sleep from our eyes this morning, a 29-year-old Italian web-designer-turned-monk was preparing to step into eternity—and straight onto every millennial’s Instagram feed. On Sunday, Pope Francis will canonise Carlo Acutis, the tech-savvy teenager already nicknamed “God’s…
Franciscan Friars Celebrate Gift of Religious Life: 800 Years of Barefoot Witness on the Rock Valletta – The bells of St Francis Church in Republic Street pealed a little longer this morning as the Maltese Province of the Order of Friars Minor marked the Feast of St Francis with a dawn-to-dusk celebration that blended barefoot…
