I like this man’s defiance. He’s got the right spirit.

I like people with backbone. They’re so few and far between in this southern Mediterranean sink-pit of amoral pragmatism.

Taghna Lkoll corruption has a tough opponent in Archbishop Scicluna. And before the historical revisionists (a polite way of describing a bunch of known-nothings) begin making comparisons with the Archbishop Gonzi and the 1960s, this is not about partisan politics.

This is about the distinction between right and wrong. And that is most definitely the territory of churchmen.

In South America, some of the strongest voices against institutionalised corruption, government abuse and human rights violations were and still are those of priests. Some of them were murdered for it.

Those priests were not ‘interfering with politics’ but standing up for what is right and firmly against what is wrong and evil.

The Archbishop, through his tweets and his public statements about his position on major issues, also reminds us of the importance of having the courage of our convictions and that we should not pretend to ourselves and others that our cowardice is prudence.

When we don’t say what we think, how we feel, where we stand on issues and how we are going to vote and why, that is not prudence. That is cowardice. And the results of that are visible all around us.