Drug-trafficker Bastjan Dalli is with his brother John in Lourdes
You have to see the crackpot side of living on this island, otherwise you will go mad like so many other people seem to be. At what point do you view what’s dangerously mad as tragi-comic?
I’ve just discovered that it isn’t only John Dalli – in whose service Police Commissioner John Rizzo was removed because he insisted on arresting and charging him – who is currently on a pilgrimage in Lourdes led by his priest brother Gorg.
Their drug-trafficking brother, a Malta contact for the Naples Camorra, is with them too – even as he is currently facing drug-smuggling charges in Malta’s courts. My source in Lourdes tells me that they John and Bastjan – those two crooks – spent “lots of their time praying in the grotto and attending mass…John even received Holy Communion.” They fly back to Malta tonight at around 2am. Wouldn’t that make a terrific press photograph?
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If the Madonna of Lourdes didn’t shed a tear these past two days, I wonder how true the whole thing is.
Daphne, is there some sort of press protocol which frowns upon getting replies to urgent issues from politicians or public persons at night?
I would have thought that if it effects the security of the nation, etc. photographers and press shouldn’t be working a 9 to 5 or 9 to 9 job.
What is your understanding of it?
Dan xi ” Fantasy tour “?
So if the The Good, The Bad and The Ugly went to Lourdes to say the rosary and pray, then you can easily spot them at 8pm on TV2000 – recorded/live transmission from the Grotto of the Holy Rosary
Even at 6.00pm (live)
It’s all a charade. They are there for the show and they are gravely abusing of my Church and they know it, but they don’t bloody care don’t they as long as they can keep their bl00dy millions close to their heart and hands.
I bet they were there just in case the Malta police have a new police commissioner who would find it in his conscience to reactivate cold-cases. Was there a doctor with them to declare them sick and unfit to travel? I wonder.
One needs to be physically fit to go to Lourdes. When people are seriously sick, then they are driven around in wheel-chairs and stretchers.
If crooks are well-enough to go to Lourdes, they are well-enough to face justice – the city is located close to the Pyrenee mountains, meaning it must be very cold at this time of the year and probably very uncomfortable for very sick people..
It would seem that they are both finding it very hard to repent and are fervently seeking the Madonna’s intervention.
There would be nothing wrong in that.
Lourdes, I’m told, is a place where people spend 3 – 5 days, no more.
If people spend more time, this to me means they need a miracle and fast or they’re looking into buying property or their visit could be associated with some business venture.
A couple of years ago, in Italy, a group of people were arrested for conning people into believing the water they were selling to the sick and desperate was 100% natural miracle water from the fountains of Lourdes. They were selling jars of water at a price and were reaping profits.
I hope we’ll never get to that, but with the Maltese infiltrating everywhere, one can not but start getting thoughts into his head and think ‘we’ may have done worse than the Italian group in Italy, who by the way was selling tap water – not pure water from the fountain, which I believe has no miraculous powers.
I firmly believe that the miracles of Lourdes are associated with the power of believing. Amputees have never gotten their legs grown back just because they drank from the fountains of Lourdes.
I also believe that the power of believing works when one is pure at heart – by pure I refer to those who have no ulterior motives, who have nothing but pure thoughts of good on their minds, who live by the good they do and who work for peace, not for gain.
Thus I would refer to Lourdes as the holiest of holy places but it is for those who have recognised its true meaning and who don’t ‘use’ it to absolve themselves and to get the Maltese people to absolve them.
It is with great pity that I have come to admit the conclusion that the Catholic Church has big problems. One of it is that it accepts everyone as equal in the eyes of God and the doors are opened to everyone even to those who have sinned.
No other religion in this world forgives and accepts as the Catholic church does and it is for this reason that things have gone downhill within the Catholic Institution – everyone goes to church prays and then goes doing what the hell he likes – right and wrong.
I’m more than sure that nobody likes hypocrites and we’re God’s will – so God must be rolling up in heaven with the hypocrisy going on in Lourdes.
As far as I know, you have to return what you stole back to be given absolution by a priest. So how come that John received Holy Communion?
Every institution has rules but the Catholic Church has none and is acting on the premise: Everybody welcome.
It has lost control.
Please do not make fun of Holy Communion or drag it into the sordid affairs of men who we perceive to be, or who indeed may be, crooks, criminals and what not.
By the same line of reasoning people who are incarcerated for serious crimes at Kordin – murder, rape, fraud etc. – should not should not be ministered to or receive the sacraments.
Who are we to judge whether a person is truly repentant, or truly trying to repent. After all we are all sinners.
“I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance…” (Luke 5:32)
No, we are not all sinners. Please do not generalise.
No, we are no one to judge, but facts speak for themselves.
Thus a spade is a spade, and to avoid beating about the bush, I’ll keep it simple: we are God’s will, we hate lies and hypocrisy, we hate liars, schemers, crooks and thieves – therefore God must be rolling in disgust at the world he so not wanted to have as it is.
You are right, Mr Bloom, but rest assured that they are not there for repentance, they are praying for more cash and better pensions.
Besides intervention do happen as Bastjan already miraculously turned whiskey to water and his marijuana blocks turned to soap. Bastjan is not like Jesus he does not deal in bread and wine he goes to the real thing.
Hypocritical as ever.
Mrs. Galizia I think you meant preying not praying.
One usually goes to Lourdes to pray for a miracle. I wonder what miracle John Dalli and his brothers could be praying for? Answers on a postcard please.
Would’ve been cheaper to get their hymen re-sewn.
Maybe they repented and are giving everything to the poor?
Tghid l-ilma tal-banjijiet ta’ Lourdes inbidel f’whisky?
Was he praying to receive the illumination to come up with creative and new business ideas?
I believe they have gone to do charitable work.
Not that old chestnut.
Working for charity is a long-term commitment and not 4 – 5 stay in Lourdes thing.
That’s not charitable work, that is what I call the black-spot of the Catholic Church: ghamel li trid, fotti u a..xi kemm trid, qerr dnubietek u mur il-knisja.
U Alla Jahfirlek :)
If he is facing charges on drug trafficking shouldn’t he have been prevented from leaving the country ?
I don’t know what’s in their heart but these things ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e931yQMvUeg ) do happen.
Ghaliex hadu din il-battikata it-tlett DALLIJIET u marru Franza biex jitolbu lil Madonna tahfirlhom dnubiethom u tinterciedi ghalihom mal-Mulej fil-bzonn kbir li ghandhom u nassumi ha jkollhom aktar il-quddiem, meta setghu imorru l-Girgenti jew Borg in-Nadur?
U la darba marru Lourdes ghaliex ma hadux bhala Direttur Spiritwali (sic) lil Don Sanctitatis senza peccatis, Carmelo Vella. Ghax dan il-Monsinjur umli u delegat tal-Isptar San Raffaele jiddeletta hafna bil-pellegrinaggi ghal grotta ta’ Lourdes u ninsab cert li kien ikollu kumpanija pjacevoli, basta meta jqaddes il-quddiesa jhalli l-omelija f’idejn Don Dalli li ghandu karizma specjali biex jispjega l-Kotba Mqaddsa kif kien jurina meta jidher fuq it-TV.
And then they mocked Tonio Fenech about the Madonna:
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/05/and-how-they-laughed-and-mocked-when-tonio-fenech-spoke-about-the-madonna-and-how-they-called-the-pn-confessional/