Bħal kull ħidma favur il-ġustizzja, il-ħidma għall-ħarsien ta’ l-ambjent hija waħda li titlob ħafna kuraġġ u perseveranza. Il-Knisja ma għandha taqta’ qatt qalbha f’din il-ħidma anzi trid tkompli twieżen lil dawk kollha li qed jaħdmu biex il-ġenerazzjonijiet futuri jkollhom tama għall-ġejjieni tagħhom u ta’ wliedhom.

http://www.laikos.org/KulturaSocjetaKnisja.pdf

Well said .

Amen to that.

I suppose one can always use religion to justify one’s argument.

The hunting lobby (and not only) can quote the Bible that God made man the master of creation: ‘God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and every living thing that moves upon the earth.” (Gen. I: 28

Environmentalists and their liberal bedfellows will argue that the above is not absolute: earth domination has to be carried out responsibly. This too is part of the Church’s official social teaching.

Taking such issues from a narrowly religious perspective will lead you nowhere.

It seems that with some people the Roman Catholic Church is the only organization which does not and should not have the right of freedom of expression.

Some still advocate Mintoff’s declaration that it should restrict itself to the sacristy.

The Roman Catholic Church and its individual members have as much freedom of expression as any other organization or individual. If anybody wants to deny that freedom because of.the influence the Church has on a section of the population, then the same should apply to the head of state, political party leaders, workers unions, etc.

I was in Romania during the recent presidential election and heard priests advising their flocks to vote for the candidates who held Christian values.

The reference was obvious, even to an outsider like me. There were no protests, no attempt to push the Church back into the sacristy. I could not help wondering what would have happened if this was done in Malta.

The hunters have a lot of questions to answer about their relation with the Labour Party before and after the general election.

If there were no satisfactory answers from the hunters, Busuttil shouldn’t have supported them.

Hadd ma qalilhom lill-kaccaturi li se tinqatalhom fil-harifa. Min se jivvota le, se jkun qed jivvota biex jghati cans lill-ghasafar jitkattru. Dak kollox.

X’injoranza ta’ nies hawn f’Malta.

“I hope his statement is taken to heart.” No, it won’t, unfortunately.

The Church has been painted in so dark colours by all and sundry (not least by the Lejber party and its front organisations) that very few will ‘take it to heart’, even if the majority still attend Sunday Mass.

Again unfortunately, to a large extent, the Church is as relevant as Franco Debono or JPO(S) — with or without apology for the comparison.

Put it down to sophistry and mental acrobatics.

Everybody wants to not take a position while taking one at the same time.

You do what you have to do to try and remain popular with everyone, I guess.

[Daphne – That is exactly what the report says.]