I tried to wait it out, I really, really did. I tried with all my might to let the Christmas season go by without commenting about the Pope’s latest attack on gay marriage...
The worst kind of let downs are the ones you walk straight into. They’re the ones your better judgement warns you about but you just don’t listen. And this is exactly what I did with the new IVF Bill. I had convinced myself that the PN –...
A man has died in unusual circumstances. He was nothing less than a human being like you and me, and yet he no longer speaks, breathes, lives. His mother is heartbroken, his siblings are devastated and his friends are inconsolable. Whether he was murdered and...
For once in my life I just to have to agree with the Bishop of Gozo who thinks that a family is a relationship between a man and a woman, who unite in marriage with the intention of having and raising children. According to Bishop Grech's...
I have to say that the interest generated by my previous blog (about single adoptions from Ethiopia), and the feedback to the subsequent news report by Claudia Calleja on the same subject, left me pleasantly surprised. Honestly, I didn’t think people would care so much about...
This article was first published in Pink Magazine - Jan 2011 ROSE CACHIA WAS INSTITUTIONALISED AT A YOUNG AGE, BUT UNLIKE MOST ORPHANS, SHE CHOSE NEVER TO LEAVE THE CONVENT AND THE NUNS WHO BROUGHT HER UP. AFTER 69 YEARS AT THE JESUS OF NAZARETH INSTITUTE IN ZEJTUN,...
Like most people in Catholic countries I was brought up in what I today consider a morbid atmosphere. At home we had a painful looking Jesus bleeding all over a crucifix in every room, and at school we had crying statues of the Holy Mary stabbed...