Comment of the night
Posted by Matthew S:
In light of what we saw a few months ago when Mintoff’s friends, colleagues and hangers-on appeared all over the newspapers bearing watches and other gifts given to Malta by foreign governments (because Mintoff didn’t like them), someone should ask Joseph Muscat what he intends to do with the three pontifical medals given to Malta by the pope.
Furthermore, I would like to ask Joseph Muscat and George Vella how they square kissing Mintoff’s coffin one day with kissing the pope’s ring on another day.
Although they might have been misguided, Eddie Fenech Adami’s and Lawrence Gonzi’s meetings with the pope were at least genuine, honest and well-intentioned meetings by pious Catholics who believed they were serving Malta well by kissing the pope’s ring.
Labour, on the other hand, made a dog’s dinner of ransacking and ridiculing the Curia (George Vella is old enough to remember that) in the golden years and have been making an even bigger dog’s dinner of divorce, anal sex and transsexuals’ right to marry in the last year or so.
How does any of that fit in with the adulation shown towards the pope a few days ago?
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Little Joey kissed all kinds of asses to get to where he does not deserve to be. What’s kissing a Pope’s ring to him? Zero.
Just another notch in his crotch.
This boy is going to self destruct. An unguided missile.
The pity is that he is so damn smug that he won’t even realise that he’s self destucted after he has managed to do so. And if he does realise, then he will start blaming anybody and everybody but himself.
I fail to see what is wrong with kissing Mintoff’s coffin and also with kissing the Pope’s ring. After all Mr Mintoff was given a full religious and state funeral.
[Daphne – Yes, David. That is exactly what is wrong: that he “was given a full religious and state funeral.” The man didn’t believe in God, let alone Catholicism, and any state funeral should have involved a large stake and some garlic.]
What the state decided to confer on Dom Mintoff has nothing to do with his ‘holiness’.
Mintoff was an anti-clerical man who did anything to get what he wanted and hurt so many. He called his siblings, a priest and a nun, ‘black sheep’ in mass meetings (‘Kull familja ghanda il-paljazza, jiena ghandi tnejn’) to mock them because of their religious vows.
The Pope, on the other hand, is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church which – with this one especially – has a proper social conscience. Kissing one and the other is in no way equal.
I’m sure the way Muscat went on and on about his adoration of Mintoff and his lack of mention of proper Christian (especially not Catholic) virtues shows which kiss he really meant. The other kiss was just for show.
Didin’t the Pope Emeritus when he was a regning Pope send a message of condolence for the funeral of Mr Mintoff?
That’s protocol. I’m sure no one believed it to be truly genuine.