The message is originally in Maltese. Any mistranslated phrases are the responsibility of who translated them.

Coran-burning pastor? Serious!

“It has been proved already that the miracles Angelik speaks about are false.” what is this proof?

It is very unethical to say things which are clearly not true. What concrete evidence do you have that any Jesuit is helping him?

And what concrete evidence do you have that he is a fraudster?

I suggest you should also read the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska and The Way of Divine Love by Sister Josefa Menendez.

These books will give give a better dimension regarding God’s choice of mystics. These two were not “Giants of theological writings”, but simple humble nuns.

Also can you tell us on whose medical authority you conclude that “the Nadur mystic” is a sick man surrounded by other sick people and opportunistic clowns” This statement of yours speaks volumes about your irresponsible outburst against people unless you can prove this slander of yours.

For what it’s worth, the wife, Catherine, is a former police officer.

“If there is nothing confirmed and approved about this particular case from the Curia and the Vatican, how could friars and nuns participate in such meetings?”

Because the Curia has no jurisdiction over friars and nuns (i.e members of religious orders as opposed to Diocesan priests). They are only subject to their superiors.

Having said that I would expect that at the very least such superiors issue some sort of comment/take some sort of action, as these charades are only serving to put religion in Malta in a bad light.

The Dominican Order took action against Mark Montebello; why shouldn’t appropriate action be taken against the Jesuit, the Franciscan and the nuns for participating in this mumbo-jumbo?

So why are these ‘Catholic’ devotees at Borg in-Nadur seeking the Eucharist in the sun, while ignoring the true presence of Christ in the tabernacle that is to be found literally metres away from anyone’s home?

The priests and nuns who actively participate in the pagan rituals on that non-sacred hillock need to seriously contemplate on the warped interpretation of Catholic beliefs that their actions are fostering.

And the same holds true for those priests and other religious who organise ‘pilgimages’ to Medjugorje, while actively hiding from the ‘pilgrims’ the fact that the Vatican long ago declared the ‘apparitions of the Virgin Mary’ there as being a fraud.

Who make promises to various saints in return for favours? Who go to Lourdes/Fatima/wherever hoping for a miracle?

What evidence can more mainstream Catholics present that makes their ideas superior to Angelik?

It’s all the same to me, bunch of beliefs without any grounding in reality.

Which aspect exactly is so beautiful about religion?

I expect the reply to be “because it encourages us to love one another”. My answer to that is that that concept is certainly not unique to religion.

Daphne, I’m sure you’re smart enough to realise that Christianity and many, if not most, other religions started off with exactly this kind of potty behaviour and claims of miraculous deeds by their founders.

Just because said events supposedly happened a very long time ago, doesn’t make them any less crazy.

Maybe it’s time to come out and start calling a spade a spade.