Today's issues

In her popular column on the Malta Independent, Daphne Caruana Galizia revisits the immigration controversy and makes some poignant remarks about detention camps, court martials, the extreme right wing and the genetic origins of the Maltese. I wonder what's her take on the Prime Minister's handling of the Alexis Callus affair! She also expresses her feelings about the Church. From DCG's article:

How many priests have given a Sunday sermon about the Good Samaritan and there being no room at the inn for Joseph and Mary, as a way of illustrating what the true Christian attitude to refugees and “illegal immigrants” should be? How many priests took the trouble to explain that Christianity is very often in conflict with political expediency and the exigencies of survival, as they are perceived by those who live here and feel threatened – and that Christians often have to make a choice that might go against their personal interests? If any one of you heard such a sermon, please write in and let me know. All I have heard so far are complaints from those who were expecting one and didn’t hear it.

If the Church wants to become relevant – as opposed to playing the role of a controlling elderly relative who never dies – then it has to make itself relevant and speak to us about the issues of the day. We are no longer interested in what the Church thinks about sexual relations between individuals in whatever context, unless those individuals are priests and the boys in their care. Those are yesterday’s issues. We need to hear about today’s.

Beginning of the end?