It has been a long time since I last wrote on this site. I am only breaking my silence now because I am so distressed to find the unmistakeable signs that the Church is in the midst of a crisis. The crisis is proceeding almost absent-mindedly under its own momentum, but its nature is clear: the secularist ideologisation of the moral sense. Even more distressing, it is Malta of all places in the world where its signs are most unignorable - and given my personal history, I can no longer resist the necessity to say something about what is going on.
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The Maltese Church once defied secularisation. Now its bishops have surrendered
The Maltese bishops' guidelines on Communion mean that secular culture has triumphed over the Church
William Oddie
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