Topic: Malta

• Father Prospero, possibly the most intelligent man alive, is to become Malta’s second ever cardinal

  Posted on 09 January 2012. Tags: Cardinal Fabrizio Sceberras Testaferrata, Cards of Identity, Fr Karl Becker, Fr Prosper Grech, Malta, Nigel Dennis

  Fr Prosper Grech, of the Augustinian Order, was for many years a distinguished professor in Rome

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• Why shouldn’t there be a Catholic ‘Supreme Governor’ of the Church of England?

  Posted on 31 October 2011. Tags: Act of Settlement, Church of England, David Cameron, Malta, primogeniture

  After all, the Catholic Church in Malta thrived under the temporal authority of protestant governors

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• My brief guide to travel books: the boring, the narrow-minded and the brilliant

  Posted on 30 June 2011. Tags: Africa, Augustus Hare, Charles Dickens, Eric Brockman, Ernle Bradford, Fergal Keane, Malta, Paul Theroux, Robert Tewdwr Moss, Shelby Tucker, Tanzania, William Dalrymple

  Nineteenth-century writers were an intriguing mix of curiosity and prejudice; modern writers are equally prejudiced, but not in a good way

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• A plunge into the waters that soaked St Paul

  Posted on 24 June 2011. Tags: Malta, St Paul

  On a baking hot afternoon in the Maltese sea, a schoolmate and I almost got into serious trouble

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• The day in 1944 that Malta honoured the Virgin Mary

  Posted on 20 June 2011. Tags: Malta, Second World War, Virgin Mary

  The return of the statue and painting of the Virgin Mary was celebrated by most of the island’s population

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• Please let us celebrate Ascension on Thursday again

  Posted on 02 June 2011. Tags: Ascension, Corpus Christi, Malta, Twelfth Night

  The current Sunday arrangement has not been a great success

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• How was your Easter?

  Posted on 25 April 2011. Tags: Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith, Malta

  Easter on the island of Malta is filled with colourful processions and feasting

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• The Mass of the Last Supper is, to me, the most beautiful service in Holy Week

  Posted on 20 April 2011. Tags: Holy Week, Malta, Spy Wednesday

  One of the glories of the Triduum is the long and silent adoration at the Altar of Repose. One of its miseries is the attempt by misguided people to fill in the silence

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• The friar and the Caravaggio thieves

  Posted on 29 July 2010. Tags: Angelicum, art theft, Beheading of St John, Caravaggio, Co-Cathedral of St John, Fr Marius Zerafa, Malta, National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta, Valletta

  Meet the Maltese priest at the heart a sting operation which saved a precious painting of St Jerome

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• Brothers play for Malta

  Posted on 02 July 2010. Tags: Malta, Rob Holloway, rugby brothers, Sale FC, St Ambrose College, Tom Holloway

  Rob Holloway, left, and his brother Tom, right, are pictured during their appearance for the MCC in the annual celebratory cricket match against their old school

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