Pope urges Church to continue to collaborate with authorities on safeguarding of children

Joe Zammit

May 18th 2010, 10:55

Thank God, the great majority of Maltese and Gozitans are Catholic and Catholic want to remain. We can easily say that 95% of Maltese and Gozitans are Catholic and this can be proven by the parish priests themselves in their regular contact they have with their parishioners.

The great majority of Maltese and Gozitans love the Pope, their bishops and priests. They help the Church in her needs and look at the Church as their sincere and sure Mother who can help them to attain eternal life.

Miguel Micallef

May 18th 2010, 09:47

Well, we all know enough, and we have known it for long enough. At this stage, does anyone really care what the pope says, or what the leaders in a specific country say? They never agree, anyway. Some of them say they want to abuse children, and its' their right to do so, being religious people - others say they want to abuse children, but keep it hidden since it's not good behaviour to be seen by the public - and then there's others still who say that they shouldn't abuse children. But who to believe? The only few people still defending the church probably have great interests in doing so, for whatever hidden reasons they might have. The rest of us will just ignore the roman catholic church and let it be its own demise. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

C Chetcuti

May 18th 2010, 06:20

Just in case you haven't heard Mr. one vision Zammit. Portugal has today passed legislation making marriage between same sex couples legal,despite the heavy propaganda by a Church and a Pope who refuse to listen.

Mean while in Malta the Church still holds to the law of omerta when it comes to it's own sins,and a Government that is still not with all it's people.

M Grima

May 18th 2010, 06:06

Hey Pope...being homosexual is so natural. .everybody's doing it

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1279241/Lesbian-albatrosses-gay-giraffes-open-minded-penguins-So-animals-really-gay.html

malcolm seychell

May 17th 2010, 22:27

The church in Malta is ignoring the pope's directions

Here they want to still protect the crimes of these criminals.

Thanks
Malcolm

Joe Zammit

May 17th 2010, 21:24

The Curia Response Team has NO DUTY to reveal what it hears. Rather it HAS THE DUTY NOT TO REVEAL ANYTHING. The Curia Response Team is not a court!

In case the alleged victims, and only the ALLEGED victims could, and still can, lodge a complaint to the police. They can opt to forgive completely as well and no one can for that matter tell them off.

Louise Vella

May 17th 2010, 20:02

The pope must have been grossly misinformed. Fact is the Church in Malta has never collaborated with the civil authorities to keep Catholic institutions exemplary in the safeguarding of children. With the excuse of shielding the child victims, the Curia shrouds the proceedings of the Response Team in secrecy to protect the aggressors - the paedophile priests - and its own reputation. The Church in Malta keeps all files and documents hidden in the secret archives of the curia. The pope must order the Archbishop to immediately hand over all files and documents relating to priest sexual abuse to the police.

Joe Zammit

May 17th 2010, 19:33

Our Criminal Law is what it is. No criminal action against offenders of sexual offences can be taken unless there is the complaint of the injured party. And still the alleged victim can stop any criminal action taken in his or her favour at any time before or after the sentence. So no one can accuse the Catholic Church in Malta of any cover up! The alleged victims had every right to lodge a complaint with the police at any time. The Church could not stop them. Of course, these sexual crimes can be taken cognizance of ex officio as well in certain cases contemplated by our Criminal Law.

Charles Sammut

May 17th 2010, 19:28

Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing? Did we not read in yesterday's papers that the Church has no intention of sharing information about child abuse cases which come to its knowledge? The state of panic in the RCC has now reached such levels that it is resorting to tactics employed by the great dictators. Assembling hundreds of thousand of flag and slogan waving supporters in the square to cheer their leader in the hope of conveying an impression that all is fine and dandy. This usually precedes the great collapse.