Former altar boy in Australia claims abuse by Maltese priest
A former altar boy in Australia has launched a lawsuit against the Catholic Church alleging years of abuse by Maltese priest Fr Joseph Sultana.
The Weekend Post reported that in a special investigation it has uncovered a 20-year web of alleged sexual abuse and a repeated failure by high-ranking church officials to report the matters to police.
The Church also failed to remove the priest at the centre of the allegations from contact with children when they were alerted to the allegations of abuse, it said.
The former altar boy is also claiming subsequent failure to take any official action by fellow priests, nuns and one of Queensland's highest-ranking bishops.
In a sworn affidavit filed with the Supreme Court, the man claimed he was regularly abused while he was a student and altar boy at St Joseph's School and Church at Atherton by Father Joseph Sultana between March 1979 and November 1982.
The Weekend Post also revealed that another man who said he was abused by Fr Sultana at the same school and church in the early 1980s took his own life at his northern beaches home in 1998.
Fr Sultana left Atherton and moved to the Ravenshoe parish shortly after a fellow priest was told about the abuse.
He continued as a serving priest in the Diocese of Cairns for at least another 15 years before relocating to Malta, where he was born. He was ordained priest in 1962 and has also served in South America.
In his sworn affidavit, the Cairns man, now 38, said he and his wife revealed the abuse to Bishop James Foley in a phone call and a subsequent meeting was held at their family home in November last year.
He said Bishop Foley did not advise him to contact police, but Bishop Foley told The Weekend Post he did tell the man to report the abuse to police, the newspaper reported.
Cairns police are investigating the man's allegations and are awaiting information from the Department of Immigration to determine if the case against Father Sultana can proceed.
In his statement, the man said he told prominent Far Northern priest Fr Patrick McKenna about the abuse while it was still happening in 1981.
But Fr McKenna became angry at the then eight-year-old and accused him of lying before ordering him to visit a school nun, where he was caned several times for lying, he claimed.
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Tonino Borg
Nov 1st 2010, 13:06
I'd like to remind you all that this is only an allagation. Nothing has been proven yet. What ever happend to being innocent until proven guilty???
Pia Attard
Jun 5th 2011, 13:52
how can someone be proven innocent or guilty if they refuse to face the courts?
M.Ellul
Oct 31st 2010, 09:07
Jiena minix ser nidhol fil-mertu ta dawn l-akkuzi ... ma nhossx illi huwa kompitu tieghi ... biss nemmen illi kulhadd ghandu jiehu li haqqu, minghajr ma niggeneralizzaw! Kurzita wahda nixtieq naqta' ... ghaliex meta l-persuna ta dawn l-akkuzi jkun qassis jissemma' b'ismu u bil-pajjiz fejn joqghod imma meta jkun persuna ohra ma jissemmgha xejn bl-iskuza li tinheba l-identita' tal-vittma?
T Borg
Oct 31st 2010, 11:22
I have to agree with you 100%, that is about mentioning names.
When it comes to priests we publish the names, but when it comes to similarly
dangerous paedophiles, we always hide the name to 'protect the child'!!!!
Come on. We are now seeing the abused children coming forward so stop
protecting the paedophiles because that is the only thing the media and
particularly the Maltese coursts are doing!!!
M. Farrugia
Oct 30th 2010, 15:40
Sew qallek Makk ghalfejn dan it-tbaqbiq kollu.
Allura bir ragunar tieghek, ghax kien hawn min kien akkuzat b'koruzjoni fil-kunsilli lokali kulhadd min kellu x'jaqsam mall-kunsilli hu korrot. Ma nahsibx li tiehu pjacir min jghidlek hekk.
Jien wiehed li migdum ghax darba kien hemm xi hadd f' kunsill lokali li ipprova jaghmilli hajjti infern allura nghid li kulhadd hu hekk. Habib
Emanuel Farrugia
Oct 30th 2010, 13:37
Il-kummenti li semmejt jien fuq il-Knisja nghidhom u nibqa' nghidhom, ghax illum jien ghandi qoxra u din il-qoxra trabbiet, ghax f'hajti ghamilta ma' hafna nies li dawn huma verament insara tafux, imma minn warajk juru kemm huma ipokriti. Dan lest li nghidu fuq l-aqwa programm li joffri dan il-pajjiz fuq it-TV u quddiem l-aqwa wiehed li toffri 'l Kurja Maltija. Nerga nghid dawn huma nies ipokriti.
Emanuel Farrugia former Executive Secretary Mtarfa Local Council
Mark Balzan
Oct 30th 2010, 14:07
Ma hemmx ghalfejn titbaqbaq Sur Emanuel Farrugia former Executive Secretary Mtarfa Local Council. Dawn in-nies li qieghed issemmi int jigu ta kull tip, religjon, u kulur ... qieghed tigeneralizza u tonqos mir-rispett lin-nies li xi darba kont tirraprezenta!
Mark Balzan, ex bidwi u fil-present grocer!
Emanuel Farrugia
Oct 30th 2010, 15:40
Sur Balzan jiddispjacini nghid u nahseb li inti ma' tafx li qeghdin nghixu f'pajjiz demokratiku u ghandi trid ghall-opinjoni u ghal kelma. Jidher sew, li 'l poplu ta' dan il-pajjiz kulhadd lest bit-ticket f'idejh ghal genna. Jien fidi wahda ghandi BISS f'Sidtna Gesu Kristu [ir-RAS] u mhux fit-team tieghu [suppost Sacerdoti].
Emanuel Farrugia former Executive Secretary Mtarfa Local Council
Mark Balzan
Oct 30th 2010, 16:44
Sur Farrugia,
naqbel li kieku ghidt li kulhadd ghandu DRITT ghall-kelma w opinjoni. Nassigurak li jien ma ghandi l-ebda ticket pero! :)
il-kumplament tal-gurnata t-tajba ...
Mark Balzan, ex bidwi u fil-present grocer!
Emanuel Farrugia
Oct 31st 2010, 12:03
Sur Balzan,
Jien nikteb dak li nhoss u minghajr kantunieri, ghax fejn hu abjad abdjad u fejn hu iswed iswed. F'dan il-pajjiz hawn hafna nies oqbra mbajda. IlKumplament tal-jum it-tajjeb lilek u 'l familja.
Emanuel Farrugia former Executive Secretary Mtarfa Local Council
Louise Vella
Oct 30th 2010, 12:43
Priests vowed to spend their life caring for all God's children. However priest child rapists abuse children and destroy their innocence. The idea that the Catholic Church should be able to deal with paedophilia in its own funny way and mete out its own punishment is a dangerous mistake. The embarrassment and the disgust that people who have been abused can feel means it can take many years for them to be able to speak.
Church leaders contributed to the sexual abuse of children by priests by trying to avoid scandal. In the name of the avoidance of scandal the church has the greatest credibility crisis. It’s been scandal after scandal to the Catholic Church. On many occasions priest child rapists were somehow magically whisked out of the country and the details never emerged. In truth, sexually abusive priests believed they could assault children and get away with it as they were aware bishops were more interested on covering-up for them rather than exposing them and protecting child victims.
Joe Xuereb
Oct 30th 2010, 12:43
It would be unjust to tar everybody with the same brush. That stands to reason. BUT, an errant priest is no ordinary errant. He (or she if a nun) represents an Institution which people put their trust in. A scandal that threatens people's very existence. In other words, an abusive priest is NOT the same as an abusive 'uncle/neighbour/teacher/older brother'.
The missionaries do indeed produce good work but, in view of these stories of abuse, it makes one wonder how many instances of such abuse happened, abuse that will never come to light. If nothing else because indigenous children would have welcome the abuse as 'love'. What could be more of a sitting duck (for sexual abuse) than an unworldly child with unworldly parents, cut off from civilization.
So yes, most priests/nuns ARE decent and god-fearing. But there are some.....and these are the ones we are talking about. Just food for thought.
I was 'abused'(ie nothing heavy) and I lived in Malta not the African Bush. I was innocent, thought it was love and reported to my mother, well, she was naive.
James Forte
Oct 30th 2010, 12:37
It looks that the church had finish, with all this sins what a shame --- issa ALLA jiggudikhom HU --- and we wish that God well send them to the bottom of hell if there one.
GiovDeMartino
Oct 30th 2010, 12:11
And Jesus said..Let those without sin cast the first stone. Arahom kif harbu!
Timmy Farrugia
Oct 30th 2010, 12:38
so we can do away with prisons and let everyone do as they please. also there are sins and then there are other sins!!!! i wonder if you had used the same phrase had the alleged abuse been done by an average citizen instead of a priest
patrick zammit
Oct 30th 2010, 16:17
GDM
So, according to you, we should accept child raping by priests and their protection by the church just because Jesus said that!
Well, that says a lot about your religion. However, I am not the least impressed as the holy church has been murdering people (with the help of civil authorities) for ages by means of the Inquisition, Holy Wars and the invasion (and genocide) of Central America to mention just a few examples.
Charles Busuttil
Oct 30th 2010, 12:05
Does this mean that these priests used to abuse these boys during the night and then say mass early in the morning? Did they absolve one another? What a mess!!!
patrick zammit
Oct 30th 2010, 11:58
What is so abhorent is the fact that the high officials of this Infaliable and Holy Church protect these child raping priests.
Peter Farrugia
Oct 30th 2010, 11:55
Hiding evidence in favour of child abuse is a grave sin that separates the offender from God and puts him or her on the path to hell.
Hiding evidence in favour of child abuse is doing a favour to evil, condemned by God.
Hiding evidence in favour of child abuse is betraying God who tells us that what he has created, let no man abuse sexually!
Hiding evidence in favour of child abuse is a diabolical step that pleases only the devil.
Hiding evidence in favour of child abuse makes you responsible before God for the grave sins others will commit on account of your sinful and evil actions.
No one can hide or keep quite re child abuse without sinning seriously against God. If someone hides evidence for child abuse he or she will be betraying God. And let no one think that God is asleep! Time will tell.
Peter Farrugia
Oct 30th 2010, 11:48
Child abuse is first and foremost a moral and religious issue. The basic evil of child abuse lies exactly in purporting to do what it must not do. In love, it is God and only God who is binding persons together and Christ ordered (not advised) us not to abuse children whom God created and loves.
The State has NO SAY in the celebration of love! So, it has no say in punishing abusive priests. Pretending to do so is only an ABUSE of power by the State.
Child abuse is grave sin. Whoever in any way promotes or hides child abuse is sinning seriously. Child abuse is not a joke! Through child abuse the sinner is separating himself or herself from God and placing himself or herself on the path to hell.
Child abuse is primarily a moral and religious issue. Those who love God cannot be in favour of child abuse. Voting for child abuse whether in Parliament or in a referendum, is a grave sin.
Louise Vella
Oct 30th 2010, 11:26
Martin Luther King said: “No lie lives forever.” If you hide the truth about predators, eventually, it will surface, and your reputation, standing and moral authority will suffer. This is true whether you are a public figure or private one. Your deceit, recklessness and callousness about children’s safety will eventually be exposed. Few respect a person who sides with powerful and guilty adults over vulnerable and innocent kids. So don’t hide child sex crimes. Don’t protect predators. Protect children instead.
Andrew Farrugia
Oct 30th 2010, 14:47
Don't you think it is a bit rich, you quoting Martin Luther King?
Sammy Ciantar
Oct 30th 2010, 10:37
Jiena nahseb li wasal iz-zmien li ahna l-poplu niehdu f' idejna knejjes u flokhom jibnew appartamenti ghal min m' ghandux. Nahseb li bil-mod in-nies qed jintebhu li dawn in-nies tas-suttana qeghdin wisq jinhbew wara l-kullar u jaghmlu li jridu. U kollha kemm huma hatja ghax il-knisja minn rasha korrotta. Jekk xi hadd fi hdan il-knisja jiddefendi lill-batut u jiggieled kontra l-ingustizzja u jitkellem il-verita tafu x' jigri minnu: jeziljawh, x'imkien bhall-Messiku. Ejjew ninghaqdu hbieb u nuruhom li spicca z-zmien li fih jistghu jabbuzaw kif iridu bil-poplu, abbuz mentali, psikologiku, fiziku u ...... sesswali. jehtieg inqumu l-ahwa!
Carmel Garcia
Oct 30th 2010, 11:09
Min m'ghandux dnub jitfa l-ewwel gebla. Nahseb Int habib m'ghandekx dnub, ghax tfajt l-ewwel gebla. x'jigifieri tiehdu l-knejjes f'idejkom, mela intom biss teziztu? Ahna li nemmnu ma nemnux bhalek. Ahna m'ahniex bhal pinnur li jdur ma kull ziffa rih. Mela ghax xi whud jizbaljaw allura kulhadd jaghmel l-istess. il-knejjes taghna u hadd mhu se jmisshomna. Jekk int ma temminx, dik affari tieghek, imma lilna l-insara hallina nemmnu dak li taghllimna l-knisja kattolika, appostolika rumana. Mal-ftit m'ghandux jehel kulhadd. Nerga nghidlek int emmen li trid, imma lilna hallina nemmnu dak li aghlmitna l-knisja li nemmnu fiha.
Kevin Fenech
Oct 30th 2010, 11:38
Jehtieg tmur torqod mela nqumu, mela nibnu appartamenti minklok il-knejjes !
Sammy Ciantar
Oct 30th 2010, 13:13
Sur Garcia, jiena semmejt xi' imkien li jiena bla dnub? jiena mhux ippokrita bhal dawn tal-kullar li jaghmlu l-oxxenitajiet f' isem Alla. Gesu qatt ma kkundanna lill-midneb, izda kliemu mimli kliem ahrax kontra l-ipokriti. U din ghalik ukoll sur Fenech, s' inhu l-ahjar u l-aktar Kristjan li noqghodu nitghaxxqu bil-knejjes hafna minnhom vojta jew inwaqqghuhom u flokhom nibdu housing ghall-batut? Knisja wahda f' kull rahal bizzejjed!! U d-deheb ta' gewwa ejjew nehilsu minnu wkoll. Jehtieg li Napuljun jerga jirxoxta! U jekk tahseb li sa mmur norqod sur Fenech sejjer zbaljat. U tahsibx li wahdi sa nibqa mqajjeb. U n-numru dejjem jikber ghax in-nies qed jifthu ghajnejhom!
Andrew Farrugia
Oct 30th 2010, 14:02
haha! Twieled rivoluzzjonarju gdid! Irid jiehu f'idejh il-knejjes biex jaghmilhom appartamenti! Napuljun, Castro gdid fostna! Tad-dahq!
Sammy Ciantar
Oct 30th 2010, 15:27
Iva tad-dahq sur Farrugia, mhux hekk! taf x'inhu tad-dahq, il-hafna zghazagh li jixtiequ post fejn joqghodu u l-uniku mezz biex forsi jaghmlu dan huwa li jmorru ghand il-kapitalist u jisselfu b' rati tal-biza. L-aqwa li tal-kullar u shabhom il-konservattivi jinsabu komdi sur farrugia. veru tad-dahq sur farrugia li l-istess nies li jabbuzaw mill-innocenti wara jmorru jippridkaw lil Kristu f' dawn il-palazzi kattolici. Li tkun iprokrita hi haga mill-aktar kerha; li tkun predikatur kristjan ipokrita hija haga letali; Ghid dan lil min gie abbuzat kemm hi xi haga tad-dahq sur farrugia. kien zmien meta konna skjavi tal-kattolicizmu pero jekk ghadek ma ntbahtx dak kien zmien u dan huwa iehor. Qum ja poplu ghax wasal iz-zmien li ngeddu s-sisien ta' din il-gzira.
A Bonnici
Oct 31st 2010, 10:35
Proset Sammy, irnexxielek tirribatti l-erba kummenti vojta u infantili ta' dawk li kitbu biex jirridikolawk. Imma fihom aktar sens zewg sentenzi minn tieghek mill-kummnenti kollha taghhom flimkien. Jien nghid wahda, il-fatti juru li il-followers tal-knisja f'malta dejjem qed jonqsu, u hekk de jibqa jigri, dejjem jonqsu aktar sa ma tispicca kwazi fix-xejn. U f'dak il-kaz u zgur li dal-balla knejjes enormi li ghandna kull fejn thares (il-Knejjes kienu jinbnew kbar bhala sinjal li il-Knisja tikkmanda dejjem, ghax akbar) ikunu zejda u li ahjar nikkonvertuhom f'xi haga aktar utli. Housing kif ghidt int u anki daqsxejn open spaces bhal playing fields jew pjazez jew gonna fejn tista tirrileksja u tpoggi ftit ghal-kwiet.
D. Dimech
Oct 30th 2010, 10:13
A former catholic, can not but feel appalled and ashamed, when hearing these facts.
innocent children, scared for life, by people sociality was used to trust.
What mostly aggravates me though, is that these sick criminals are never properly punished,
i have not heard of 1 case where a former priest found guilty of child abuse, is sent to jail, or found unfit and locked in a hospital. The church seems to deal with things in its way, with its Vatican court and usually sends the accused of in some distant convent, out of peoples way.
Why are these people not taken to a normal court with a normal jury. Just like I would be if accused of the same crimes. Why are these people accused of such horror, given a different treatment? just because they have a different life style and accusation, i do not find it an appropriate excuse. I am afraid of having kids in this modern society where pedophiles are left free, simply because they where a cross and have a 'father' in front of there name. Where is the law?Where is justice, in this democracy?
RJ Micallef
Oct 30th 2010, 10:10
SHAME and SHAME. I would suggest that this is the tip of the iceberg. Many people went to their grave harbouring despicable secrets and many more are too embarrassed to speak up.
What a cheek to now have their representatives, who remained silent in the knowledge of such atrocities, to dictate to us that it is a grave sin to divorce.
d. borg
Oct 30th 2010, 10:04
I feel so angry whenever I read of priests' abuses on innocent children. These taparsi 'men and women of God' whom we trusted so blindly with our children, turned out to be real monsters. Shame on them and on those who covered for them. Kollha ghad iridu jaghtu kont quddiem Alla ta dawn il hnizrijiet.
Dennis Zammit
Oct 30th 2010, 06:16
Where is this priest now in Malta? We MUST know to safeguard our children.
Connie Deguara
Oct 30th 2010, 05:37
And they tell you divorce is a sin, what a joke.
Kevin Fenech
Oct 30th 2010, 11:31
2 wrongs don't make 1 right !
lydia pace workman
Oct 31st 2010, 12:52
What and who has given you the dogmatic right to determine that divorce is a 'wrong' for everyone? Consult the abused women and children who lived in fear for years in their own homes while they were physically and emotionally abused by a parent and ask them how 'wrong' it was to seek the pursuit of happiness and health, distancing themselves from the torture and creating a new and happy environment with someone else. Kemm ghadna shortsighted u kategorici!
Fiona Fenech
Oct 30th 2010, 01:47
Shocking and disgusting and if the allegations are founded I hope all the guilty pay!
HOWEVER: FROM ALL THE CHURCH'S DOING IN THE WORLD - IS IT ONLY THIS THAT MAKES IT TO THE PAPERS?? HOW ABOUT SOME NEWS OF ALL THE GOOD THAT IS BEING DONE? BUT THAT ISN'T SENSATIONAL IS IT?
Paul Fenech
Oct 30th 2010, 00:41
Never ending story here, inpoggu lill kulhadd f keffa wahda. mela mal qassisin hziena nitfghu lit tajbin ukoll. Ghandu jehel min jizbalja, u mhux tipprovaw thammgu lill kulhadd. Hawn nahseb kulhadd perfett hux. Halluna ghax nidhqu.
Kevin Fenech
Oct 30th 2010, 11:33
Ghandek perfettament ragun, hu per ezempju il- Monsinjur li jmexxi d-dar tal-Providenza, jew l'iehor li jmexxi il-Caritas.
L Mifsud
Oct 30th 2010, 11:53
Mhux kullhadd perfett le...... Fr McKenna is a good priest cos he didn't abuse children...but when he was told of the abuse by the abused he sent him for caning at a nun and told him that he was lying...
brian grima
Oct 30th 2010, 00:11
How disgusting.....
ABORG
Oct 29th 2010, 23:47
i am disgusted at reading the last sentence....these 'holy' people are always in the right and defend each others' actions irrespective of such a serious claim.....dishonesty at its best !
Emanuel Farrugia
Oct 29th 2010, 23:30
Successi fuq successi qeghda taghmel il-Knisja Kattolika. Issa mhux il-qassisin barranin biss qeghdin jidhru fuq il-gazzetti, imma anke dawk maltin. Basta nilbsu 'l kullar u taparsi mmorru 'l missjoni, fejn taf x' missjoni u xi tbatija. IPOKRITI U IPOKRITI. Ghandkom ghalfejn tmorru fuq l-artal twasslu 'l messaggi ta' Kristu, fejn taf.
Emanuel Farrugia former Executive Secretary Mtarfa Local Council
Joseph Galea
Oct 30th 2010, 07:36
Jekk jien jew int immorru l'missjoni u naghmlu xi haga illegali ,inkunu f'liberta assoluta ,ghax barra li jkunu obligati lejna ma' hemm hadd min jiehu passi kontra taghna ghax hemm kollox jaghddi.
Charles J. Buttigieg
Oct 30th 2010, 07:50
@ Emanuel Farrugia
I am not one known to be an apologist for the church, its priests and prelates but I’d like to be fair to them. You get good priests and bad priests and it isn’t right to condemn all the clergy as if they are all paedophiles.
Franco Farrugia
Oct 30th 2010, 08:32
Ahjar ma niggeneralizzawx. Qed tattakka lill-qassisin kollha u jien xorta nibqa' nsostni li l-parti l-kbira taghhom agixxew u jagixxu b'mod xieraq. Mal-hazin m'ghandux jehel it-tajjeb.Mhux b'dan il-mod li niznu jew le, is-'successi' tal-Knisja Kattolika - u min jaqra l-kummenti hawnhekk, jaf li jien m'inix wiehed minn dawk li napprova kull ma tghid jew taghmel il-Knisja. Imma s-sew, sew!
Fuq nota personali: ma narax ir-relevanza li toqghod izzid l-'ufficcju' li kont tokkupa darba.
Mark Balzan
Oct 30th 2010, 08:48
Mr. Farrugia, I guess these are your personal opinions ... what is the point of including Mtarfa Local Council in every comment you make ... WAS that some supreme position that makes your arguments more valid for the timesofmalta.com readers?
M. Farrugia
Oct 30th 2010, 09:01
Habib, min ma ghandux dnub ha jitfa l-ewwel gebla.
Ma tistax tqieghed lill-kulhadd fl-istess keffa u sfortunament il-hazin dejjem jaghmel hoss izjed mit-tajjeb.
Dawn li ghamlu l-abuzzi ghad irridu jaghtu kont lill-Alla ghax il-Mulej qal li min jghati skandlu liz-zghar ikun ahjar li jorbot mazra ma ghanqu u jintefa l-bahar.
Religjuzi tajjbin hawn fil missjoni forsi qatt ma kellek ix-xorti li tara b'ghajnejk x'mirakli jaghmlu.
Ghandna bzonn nitolbu ghal vittmi ta' dawn l-abuzzi.
Leli Cassar
Oct 30th 2010, 09:14
min zbalja jiehu li haqqu jekk mhux f'din id-dinja, quddiem Alla... imma li tpoggi lil kulhadd fl-istess keffa u tipprova thammeg lil kulhadd mhux accettabbli. Fuq kollox min hu bla dnub jitfa' l-ewwel gebla...
Emanuel Farrugia
Oct 30th 2010, 12:46
Sinjuri qieghed nara li f'dan il-pajjiz hawn hafna nies li jhobbu jinhabbu u juru kemm huma nsara fejn taf. l-aktar meta jkun wasal 'l hin tal-'paci mieghek' waqt il-quddies. Nies ipokriti joffri dan il-pajjiz, basta ninhabbu ma' dak u ma' l-iehor.
Emanuel Farrugia former Executive Secretary Mtarfa Local Council
Andrew Farrugia
Oct 30th 2010, 13:35
Kemm thobb tiggenneralizza hej, sur Farrugia, ex-segretarju tal kunsill tal-Imtarfa! U jekk hawn hafna ipokriti f'Malta, int minn fejn gej? Minn Alpha Centauri? Iddahhaqx siehbi.
M. Fenech
Oct 29th 2010, 23:24
They should all be burned in hell! And even all those who try to defend or hide these facts, should be burned in hell too!!
victor pulis
Oct 30th 2010, 08:42
there is no hell. we must make one here not just for these so called men of God but for all the others who in some way destroy other people's lives by there actions.
M. Fenech
Oct 31st 2010, 00:21
@ Victor Pulis
I agree with you! In fact that's what I meant, but i tried to put it down in a soft way. We should do to them, just like waht they did to Joan Of Arc! A big bar- b- que with these sick people!
lydia workman
Oct 29th 2010, 23:22
I find it appalling that this individual sat in a confessional and listened to people's innermost regrets and embarrassing moments while all along he allegedly abused the innocent. This again is another incident swept under the rug for years by the church, and to add insult to injury, an incident victimizing the children again by calling them liars. These children get raped twice, first by the priest and then by the church! An eight year old boy would have absolutely no knowledge of certain sexual acts and could in no way be making these serious allegations up! And the Maltese Catholics are worried about divorce, which is an issue that pales in comparison to these hideous crimes!