Archbishop Charles Scicluna does not miss a chance to make politically-loaded comments. Such a chance again occurred during his celebration of Mass on the 100th anniversary of the Sette Giugno riots during which four Maltese men were killed by British soldiers.

The politically-loaded comment I am referring to is when the Archbishop said that “while the Maltese blamed the British for what happened on that fateful day, if the same thing happens today, the Maltese will have no one else to blame but themselves”.

How can such a thought even cross the Archbishop’s mind? In 1919, there was widespread hunger and unemployment. Today, we have full employment and the number of people who still live in relative poverty has been drastically reduced by half during the last five years. Official EU statistics rank the Maltese people among the happiest in the whole of Europe.

While in that distant past the Maltese were leaving our country to find work abroad, today thousands of foreigners are coming to Malta as work opportunities abound.

Is it any wonder then why the local Church authorities have lost all their ‘political influence’ on Maltese voters?

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