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The feast of St Francis will be celebrated at St Anthony church in Għajnsielem on October 4. Days of triduum started yesterday. Holy rosary will be recited in f

Taking a stand I refer to the letter ‘Catholics step forward’. Although it’s certainly a pleasure reading Jacqueline Calleja’s defence and promotion of our Catholic faith, Mgr Joseph Farrugia forgot to mention a handful of other correspondents with a Catholic inspiration who gave their contribution to this cause. This defence of the Catholic morality and the Church itself was never found wanting even prior to the enactment of certain debatable laws in the not-too-distant past but when y...

Emotional reaction Moral convictions have this intuitive power that makes them feel as if they must be true. This explains why/how anti-choice people like John Azzopardi (February 18) perceive the immorality of abortion to be a fact when, actually, it is a matter of their subjective state of mind and what they attach moral significance to. For the record, the evidence that 19 out of every 20 women do not regret having abortions is found in the study of Rocca et al (Emotions and decision rightne...

Post-abortion regret I was stupefied by Isabel Stabile’s statement that 19 out of 20 women do not regret having an abortion. It would be interesting to know the source of this information. For me, it is an outright Quixotic lie. The professor and her group are trying to colour their movement as being Christian, compassionate and ethical but, obviously,  they don’t represent what decency and morals dictate. Their clever ideological ploy is an attempt to wrap themselves around common persona...

Shift employees and public holidays I refer to the article ‘Shift employees in the dark over leave entitlement’ (February 7). Surprisingly, the article seemed to have disregarded a rebuttal to a very similar article that featured two days prior in other media outlets. In accordance with the 2017 electoral manifesto, the government is making true its pledge to reinstate public holidays falling on weekends in accordance with the procedure which was in effect prior to 2005. Therefore, necessar...

The Franciscan Friars of Saint Anthony of Padua church, in Għajnsielem, celebrated the presentation of Jesus at the Temple, known as the Candlemas, earlier this week. The celebration started with the rosary, followed by the blessing of lit candles. Fr John Azzopardi led a thanksgiving Mass. The observance of the feast of the presentation of Jesus at the Temple spread throughout the Western Church in the 5th and 6th centuries. Because the Church in the West celebrated Jesus’s birth on Decembe...