It has been a long time coming and we have now reached crisis point.

Malta is a centre of the international drug trade which is permeating our society and causing financial, social and medical havoc, from schools to clubs and families.

Huge sums of money exchange hands, damaging our moral fibre, and breeding materialism and a loss of moral values.

Drunkenness is a seemingly insurmountable problem, creating lack of self control and driving minor arguments into major bouts of violence. Alcoholic drinks are sadly part of our western culture.

Violence, encouraged by films, DVDs and the internet, has long been rearing its ugly head, at football matches, supposedly religious feasts and political meetings. Verbal and physical violence is common.

Moral degradation is a result of this excessive permissiveness and materialism. It is like a cancer eating away the muscle of our society. It is not punished, but hushed up and colluded, festering underneath our civic sense.

Fraud, immoral cheating and robberies are often in the news. This is a result of moral and financial greed and spiritual emptiness and sickness.

The degradation of the countryside reflects this moral, materialistic crisis. We do not sufficiently care for our land and keep building and encroaching on open land carelessly, diminishing the oxygen which our islands require in order to survive healthily.

Maltese society also has its undeniable good points: free medical care, a generally fair social security system, free schooling and subsidised university education, some beautiful buildings, three magnificent harbours, an up-and-running busy airport with several international connections and destinations, good links by sea to our sister island Gozo and with Sicily, and a general tolerance of outsiders, both holiday-makers and refugees. But we are still in a moral crisis, and need to wake up, or be woken up by the civil and ecclesiastical authorities. We cannot remain as ‘sheep without a Shepherd’. We need a good, new spiritual, strong and commanding archbishop with qualities of good leadership, and spiritual and civic alertness.

There is always hope, following alertness, repentance and atonement. We cannot go on as we are at present, going downhill morally and in our social fibre. We need to take stock of our situation and act rapidly to redress it, for our own good.

Again, we need good leaders.

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