MALTA
Malta Independent

Tuesday, 12 August 2014 by Neil Camilleri

The former Mgarr Parish Priest has hit out at his “unfair dismissal” by Archbishop Paul Cremona and Auxiliary Bishop Charles Scicluna and said the two top Curia officials had succumbed to undue pressure by a small group of extreme traditionalists who wanted him out of their parish. In doing so, the Curia is exposing its “leadership crisis”, he said.

In exclusive comments to The Malta Independent, Fr Emanuel Camilleri reacted to a report in L-Orizzont about his dismissal, which claimed he had set out on the wrong foot with parishioners over a ban on unauthorised statues in the Via Sagra procession. The report also claimed that Mgr. Scicluna had personally gone to Mgarr to deliver the bad news and that the parish priest had decided on his own when to be formally appointed as parish priest. But speaking to…