News Item: : For the Good Priests of Malta
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Monday 13 February 2017 - 12:46:45

Charles Scicluna in Malta: Hey, go easy with the Kool-Aid!

On 25th January, the sacrilegious communion-promoting Charles Scicluna gave a sermon in Malta.

With an ultramontanist fervour that would have made even the good Cardinal H.E. Manning wince, Scicluna asserted: ''Whoever wishes to discover what Jesus wants from him, he must ask the Pope, this Pope, not the one who came before him, or the one who came before that. This present Pope.''

What Scicluna failed to see was that this extreme papal positivism only served to underline just how much Francis' Amoris Laetitia - and Scicluna and Grech's blasphemously sacrilegious interpretation of it - can be seen to represent a radical rupture from 2,000 years of Sacred Tradition.

Indeed, the conception of religious leadership presented by Scicluna's homily seemed to have much more in common with the cultish Jim Jones of Jonestown infamy, than with anything remotely approaching orthodox Catholicism.

And we all know how things went in Jonestown...

Such narrow-minded fanaticism was further underlined when Scicluna advised Malta's Catholics to avoid blogs. In normal times, his advice to instead seek the will of Christ in ''the Church'' would be totally orthodox. But when the blogs he derides are merely those which are pointing out the fact that it is he who is departing from the Church, and not those Catholics who continue to follow the continuity of Christ's teaching through all of the previous popes, then his guidance becomes positively toxic.

In any case, the ''nudge, nudge, wink, wink'' approach employed in Amoris Laetitia's footnotes can hardly be said to be a clear teaching that Catholics are obliged to follow.

That Scicluna's approach in this homily was not a one-off was confirmed last week when Fr. Ray Blake's blog shared an e-mail from a concerned priest, who is presently serving in Malta.

This priest affirmed that the orthodox priests in Malta became desperate following a meeting with Scicluna, in which he repeated the blinkered mantra of his homily.

As Fr. Blake quoted: ''The mantra is this: We have one Pope, the present Pope - Francis - and reminded his parish priests that this principle is the most traditional of principles: we follow whatever the Pope says. He went on to say that if the next Pope says something else, we will then follow what he says.''

From this little snippet it appears that Scicluna is oblivious of the truth that Popes can only defend the objective Deposit of Faith; and the fact that we must obey superiors in all things except for sin.

This being the case, and given the desperate feeling amongst the clergy and laity of Malta, we wish to dedicate the following ditty to encourage the good priests of Malta to do the right thing.

O Good Priests of Malta!

There once was a chap called Scicluna,

whose theology suddenly went lunar!

He held that the Pope

had unlimited scope;

like declaring that Goldfish was Tuna!

On the road down to Heck,

with his neighbour called Grech,

he issued his good priests a warning:

If Pope Frank says it's right,

to set your own hair alight,

then, by jove, you'll do it by morning!

'Coz Pope Frank can't be wrong,

when he speaks with his tongue,

or shows us by way of instruction:

That short is now long;

and right is now wrong;

and goodness is outright corruption!

'Til Pius Thirteen

arrives on the scene,

he conceded by way of deflection,

then 'neath Frank's yoke we shall lean,

like there never has been,

ought else in our holy religion!

The priests of those isles,

though they wore their best smiles,

feared they might get suspended.

For Kasperian wiles,

stretching miles upon miles,

had left all reason upended!

O good priests of Malta,

by God's grace do not falter;

join up in a reverent union.

You must tell that chap Charles,

though he sulks or he snarls:

''We'll not give adulterers Communion!''

Please say a ''Hail Mary'' for Archbishop Scicluna and Bishop Grech to repent and return from their present course.  

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