MALTA
Times of Malta

Wednesday, January 13, 2016 by Ivan Martin

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat failed to condemn an aide yesterday who had made a public ‘priest child abuse’ dig at Archbishop Charles Scicluna.

Glenn Bedingfield, employed at the Office of the Prime Minister on a position of trust basis, shared a video clip Tuesday of Mgr Scicluna accompanied by the caption: “At least the Prime Minister didn’t go into any children’s bedrooms.”

In the clip, Mgr Scicluna is seen criticising Joseph Muscat’s controversial new year’s message during a television interview aired on Monday night. Mgr Scicluna told the interviewer he trusted that “the next time Dr Muscat visits a kitchen, it will be real”, a reference to the Prime Minister’s staged tete-a-tete with a young couple inside their designer kitchen.

Mr Bedingfield’s comment was a reference to sexual abuse by priests. Mgr Scicluna was the chief Church prosecutor…