MALTA
Times of Malta

Saturday, October 13, 2012 by
Mgr Joseph Farrugia

It is regrettable that Martin Scicluna felt offended when I said that, during the recent Church debate organised by The Times, he was “boringly repetitive”. Of course he was. Grudgingly he even admits it, though on most, not all, the points.

The fact is that Scicluna did not just keep repeating himself. He also kept repeating others, as when time and again he parroted Desmond Tutu’s “speaking truth to power” catchphrase. I do not recall hearing him crediting the Anglican archbishop with this phrase. I also do not recall him putting any nuance to his use of the archbishop’s axiom.

I do, however, recall thinking how unfair it was to trivialise a phrase that defined a struggle to overcome a deadly “power”, that of apartheid, which refused to face the “truth” of the dignity of every human…