Gozo Bishop Mario Grech has criticised the “cynical secularist culture” which says God should not be included in human and social discussions.

Speaking during his homily to mark the feast of St George in Victoria, Mgr Grech said this indirectly made Catholic citizens feel excluded from public debates simply because their reasoning was enlightened by their faith in Christ.

His message comes just as the country is discussing the possibility of introducing divorce after Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando moved a Private Members’ Bill. Mgr Grech said Europe was living through a period of big disequilibrium, where the people in power were achieving more strength and the feeble were becoming weaker.

Although humans had recognised the strength of their reasoning, they were not conscious of the limits of this reasoning and were, therefore, capable of manipulating nature.

This reasoning, he went on, made people feel like they could “play with natural institutions”, like marriage and the family, and warned the faithful that this promoted styles of living that went against human nature.

Mgr Grech said personal and public morals were weakening because human energy was not accompanied by ethical and moral energy.