People who were not in full communion with the teaching of the Church, were not in communion with Christ and could not receive Communion, Gozo bishop Mario Grech said this morning.

He said in his homily during a Confirmation ceremony at St George's Parish in Victoria that one could not say he was a Christian or a Catholic and not be loyal to Christian beliefs. This, he said, was a farse.

The bishop said that there were traitors who used every means to kill the flock. Currently they were attacking marriage but other issues would then follow.

They were wolves in sheep's clothing and they were saying they were Catholic. "This is a falsehood," he said.

He called on the adolescents receiving Confirmation to keep the word they were giving not like the adults who wanted to introduce divorce against a promise they made earlier.

Everyone had a right to marry, he said, but not everyone has the right to marry in church.

There was only one way, it was the way of the Lord.

"Do not accept anything less," Bishop Grech said.