MALTA
Malta Independent

Every institution has its own politics, and the Maltese Church falls squarely in that state of fact. Last week, a former parish priest vented his frustration at being asked to resign his post because the Church was being held to ransom by some parishioners and feast organisers. All too often it takes an incident such as this to point out the elephant in the room. Fr Emanuel Camilleri, who was at Mgarr parish, blurted out that the Church was in a leadership crisis.

Initially, many were flummoxed, it was a bolt out of the blue. But when this newspaper tried to speak to the Curia to get a reaction the next day, we were told that there was no comment to be made. That same day, we were given a full length rebuttal by one of the parish committees that organise the feast there. We were…