Gozo Diocese

The Secretariat of COMECE regrets that the Chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs by invoking the Parliaments’ Rules of Procedure has refused to put to the vote several amendments tabled by different parliamentarians which aimed at including the protection of Sunday in the new Working Time Directive. The Secretary General of COMECE, Father Piotr Mazurkiewicz, expressed his disappointment that a debate on the protection of Sunday has not taken place apparently due to procedural obstacles.

The European Parliament is now deliberating on the Second Reading on the revision of the Working Time Directive of 2003. On 22 October 2008, seven Members of Parliament from the ranks of the European People’s Party (EPP), the Party of European Socialists (PSE) and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) tabled amendments to the draft recommendation of the rapporteur Alejandro Cercas (PSE), according to which the protection of Sunday should be anchored in the Working Time Directive. To that end, the existing Article 5 of the Directive should be complemented by a second paragraph according to which the minimum weekly rest period “shall in principle include Sunday “. Continue reading >>

The financial crisis has exposed a deeper spiritual crisis and a misguided set of values. The sense and value of human work has been pushed to the background in the general struggle for profit, the COMECE Bishops stated with regret on the occasion of their Autumn Plenary Assembly. This meeting, which took place from 12 to 14 November in the new offices of COMECE in square de Meeûs 19 in Brussels, was also marked by the presence of Fr Piotr Mazurkiewicz as the new Secretary General.
 
With « The current challenges for the European Union » as its main topic, the Plenary Assembly gave the Bishop Members of COMECE the opportunity to analyse the triple crises confronting the EU during recent months: the result of the Irish Referendum which suspended the Lisbon Treaty and the associated institutional Reform of the EU; the geopolitical crisis resulting from the war between Russia and Georgia; and, finally, the financial and economic crisis.
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L-għanijiet ewlennin tal-Kunsill huma li:

• Iħares l-edukazzjoni fl-Iskejjel tal-Knisja fuq it-tagħlim u twemmin nisrani kif imfisser fid-dokumenti uffiċjali tal-Knisja, u jimxi fuq il-linji gwida u l-istruzzjonijiet li l-Isqof u l-Awtoritajiet Ekkleżjastiċi jħabbru minn żmien għall-ieħor;
• Jaħdem biex iżomm l-Iskejjel tal-Knisja fuq quddiem fil-qasam tal-edukazzjoni, u jaħdem id f’id mad-Diviżjoni u l-Ministeru tal-Edukazzjoni, mas-Segretarjat tal-Edukazzjoni Nisranija, u mal-Private Schools Association;
• Iħares l-interessi speċifiċi tal-Iskejjel tal-Knisja u jieħu l-passi kollha meħtieġa biex iġib ’il quddiem dawn l-interessi;
• Iżomm quddiem għajnejh dak kollu li jitolbu l-Att tal-Edukazzjoni, ir-regolamenti u l-linji gwida li jagħtu l-Ministeru u d-Diviżjoni tal-Edukazzjoni, il-Ftehim fuq l-Iskejjel tal-Knisja li sar bejn is-Santa Sede u r-Repubblika ta’ Malta, u xi direttivi li s-Segretarjat tal-Edukazzjoni Nisranija jħoss li għandu jagħti fl-interess tal-Iskejjel tal-Knisja f’Malta u Għawdex.

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Membri tal-Kunsill: Fr Effie Masini (Delegat tal-Isqof), Fr Emmanuel Saliba, Sister Francesca Abela fcj, Horace Mercieca, Joe W Psaila

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