https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/57232 2026-04-04T16:20:55Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/57083 Title: Book reviews [Melita Theologica, 54(1)] Abstract: Anthony Abela's review of a book Bibbia per noi written by Carlo Buzzetti. 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/57080 Title: Family values and social policy in member and applicant countries of the European Union Authors: Abela, Anthony M. Abstract: This paper explores the relation between family values and options for social policies of representative citizens from thirty European societies, constituting member and applicant countries of the European Union. It seeks to understand the values and value orientations supporting specific family structures and options for social policies of distinct groups of nations, corresponding to the various waves of accession or application for membership to the European Union. These include European Union (EU) members identified for an IPROSEC (Improving Policy Responses and Outcomes to Socio-Economic Challenges: changing family structures, policy and practice) project according to their welfare system and wave ofEU accession as Continental (France, Germany, Italy [joined in 1951]), Universal (United Kingdom, Ireland [1973]), Latin Rim (Greece [1981], Spain [1986]) and Nordic (Sweden [1995]) countries; post-communist (Hungary [applied in 1994], Poland [ 1994], Estonia [ 1995]) and Mediterranean (Malta [ 1990]) applicant countries (Hantrais 2001); and the remaining countries taken together: members, applicant and non-applicant countries of the European Union. Description: Paper read at the ESPRN Conference "Social Values, Social Policies" Tilburg University. 29-31 August 2002. 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/57079 Title: The family : a reflection of the Trinity Authors: Eminyan, Maurice Abstract: While in God there necessarily is absolute simplicity, because of his infinitely perfect divine nature, in the human person God's image appears, as it were, reflected or refracted into different aspects just as a ray of light falling on a prism comes out split into a variety of rays representing the rainbow colours. Thus both man and woman, in their spiritual and sexual differences, are God's image and likeness. And so is their complementarity and their instinctive, urge to be attracted to each other and become one, through mutual love and total self-giving, and thus share in God's creative prerogative by becoming procreators of new life. Thus the family itself, of its very nature, is God's image and likeness. 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/57078 Title: The right environment for the recruitment and formation of vocations Authors: Bonnici, Francis Abstract: In his Apostolic Exhortation, Pastores dabo vobis (25 March 1992), John Paul II speaks of "The challenges facing priestly formation at the conclusion of the second millennium" 2 and considering the different aspects of human life today, John Paul II gives the positive and the negative sides of these aspects of the life of children, adolescents, young people and adults; he considers the negative aspects as the main hindrances for priestly vocations today. 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z