In tiny Malta, the Catholic Church still has a shot at getting secularism right
There’s one corner of Western Europe where the divorce between faith and culture is still playing out in real time: The tiny island nation of Malta.
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by bcadmin | May 15, 2022 | Abortion, Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna, euthanasia, Hospice, lead, Malta, News, News Analysis, secularism | 0 |
There’s one corner of Western Europe where the divorce between faith and culture is still playing out in real time: The tiny island nation of Malta.
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Michael Kamau Mathini is convinced that his father lived as long as he did because of the quality of care he received at Our Lady Hospice-Thigio, run by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul.
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Arriving in the early evening at Fatima Hospital, Father Richard Narciso — his anxiety level already raised due to the circumstances — listened intently as Gloria, the nurse assigned to guide him, detailed the procedures he would need to follow to mitigate his risk of falling prey to COVID-19, the same illness afflicting the patient he had arrived to anoint.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 24, 2020 | Annointing, anointing, COVID-19 pandemic, Front lines, Hospice, Last Rites, News, Priests, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Arriving in the early evening at Fatima Hospital, Father Richard Narciso — his anxiety level already raised due to the circumstances — listened intently as Gloria, the nurse assigned to guide him, detailed the procedures he would need to follow to mitigate his risk of falling prey to COVID-19, the same illness afflicting the patient he had arrived to anoint.
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