New St Albert the Great College

I would like to draw the Church's attention to the proposed building of the new St Albert the Great College in Ghaxaq. It is surprising that the Church is going to devastate about 72,000 square metres of arable land. While the new archbishop declared...

I would like to draw the Church's attention to the proposed building of the new St Albert the Great College in Ghaxaq. It is surprising that the Church is going to devastate about 72,000 square metres of arable land.

While the new archbishop declared his support for the environment, plans were being designed for the devastation of this land. With our environment in such a critical situation and the decreasing birth rate, is another big new school what the country needs? There are families living off that land who will be deprived of a living.

If this school is built, the Church will be serving as a negative role model and sending messages that the environment is not important. The second phase of the plan projects the  building of another convent too. Does the shrinking number of vocations require another convent?

The Church should reconsider this devastation. There are so many derelict Church buildings around the island which the Church can't even afford to restore. Why not take one of them, demolish it and rebuild the school and convent in its stead?

This building will definitely throw a bad light on the Church as it is incongruent with the Church's pro-life mission. If it has to do something with the land, why not turn it into a park for children? That is what Ghaxaq and Maltese children really need.

Incidentally, are the proposed plans within the building scheme?

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