Not all Catholics are devout and perfect Catholics. Even Popes go to confession. This applies also to Protestants and other religions. This does not mean that they are not Catholic, Proestant, Jewish and so on.

[Daphne – Jewish is an ethnicity, David. The religion is associated with it. Practising Catholicism and sometimes breaking the rules is not the same thing as not believing in the rules or abiding by them at all, which is how the vast majority of Maltese below the age of 50 live. Catholicism is not an ethnicity.]

Nahseb li Silvio Parnis qed jipprepara biex ikun ic-Cermen tal-Kumitat Konsultattiv dwar in-Nofsinhar ta’ Malta. Kien qal li hemm kollox lest, min se jidhol ‘l hawn, min se jidhol ‘l hemm.

It is one way of looking at it. But I think that this bunch do not know anything about protocol, or else they couldn’t give a f**k.

May I remind you that during the Sant era the same foreign minister (correct me if I’m wrong ), forgot to go to Mother Teresa’s funeral, and didn’t send anyone else either.

He is copying Obama to a tee in that respect.

The way they are seated looks like maybe he wanted to confess something.

Not so sure about this Pope. Seems like another chav to me. Look how he left a whole audience waiting at that concert in Rome, and then did not turn up, because of “important meetings which could not be postponed”.

Oh, the hypocrisy and contradictions that come out glaringly whenever religion is involved. This is all the more evident within the Labour ranks.

As if it’s not enough that the visit was a purely propaganda exercise, they even told us that the Vatican anticipated the planned visit by a couple of weeks. As if to say how anxious the Vatican authorities were to see this New Phenomenon called Joseph Muscat!

U halluna, tridux?! Kemm tahsbu li l-poplu ghadu daqshekk babbu?!

No wonder he thinks the Code of Ethics is like a briksa – it is so blatantly obvious that he and his lot have no idea of how to behave and that it is the first time in their life that they have to conduct themselves with some decorum.

Silvio Parnis biss kien jonqos f’dak il-grupp Malti.

Why the hell does he keep his right arm that way? Why can’t anyone of his so called advisers advise him on how to stand up properly?