There are some things which are impossible to avoid: death, taxation, PPI phone calls, and – according to Malta’s bishops – sex.
Yes, that's right: senior representatives of an institution which for 2000 years has taught that celibacy is beautiful, possible and necessary for its unmarried laity and later its clergy, is now suggesting that God’s grace simply isn't enough in certain areas of sexual temptation. It's almost as if sex is something that just happens to us, like cancer: unfortunate but sometimes unavoidable.














