Bishops’ right, duty to teach (2)

As sure as cold weather in January, Martin Scicluna (January 15) has lost no time in coming out to denigrate Bishop Charles Scicluna’s recent remarks concerning gay rights, adoption and what the Church expects of Catholic politicians. In his...

As sure as cold weather in January, Martin Scicluna (January 15) has lost no time in coming out to denigrate Bishop Charles Scicluna’s recent remarks concerning gay rights, adoption and what the Church expects of Catholic politicians.

In his superior, Sunningdale liberal air he questions the bishop’s right to interpret the Church’s teaching on the moral foundations upholding society, dragging in “clerical child sex abuse” to confound the issue. Which authority then, does he

recommend to lay down the moral foundations of our Maltese society, assuming he believes in ‘moral foundations’, and one set of moral foundations, if at all?

Bishop Scicluna’s forthright pronouncements are here welcome. Respect for minorities does not include taking in the claims of inexistent rights such minorities may make. And the brand of our democracy is happily not of the liberal sort that sanctions abortion.

 

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