The Apostle Paul brought the Gospel to Malta, and the Maltese today arguably remain the most Catholic people on the planet, despite plunging Mass attendances in recent years. The strategic position of the Maltese islands made it inevitable that their history would be full of invasions and wars.
Conflict of another sort, however, erupted from Malta earlier this month and spread worldwide with the publication of a document by the nation’s bishops. The text, “Criteria for the Application of Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia”, offered a set of guidelines intended to help interpret and apply the most disputed section of Pope Francis’s much discussed document.
