When the cross was removed from the podium when Pope Francis visited Malta last year, it is needless to say that this news was internationally covered, including on Church newspapers like The Church Militant.
[Pope Francis should have reprimanded Abela for ‘encouraging’ employers to have their employees taking the deadly Covid-19 vaccines, with some, losing their job for refusing. But let us not forget that he had stated that taking the Covid-19 vaccines is an act of love.]
The article reads:
“Organizers canceled the crucifix from the papal podium because Pope Francis did not want to offend illegal Muslim migrants during the climax of his Malta trip.
Instead, recycled plastic bottles with red blobs were used to design the backdrop for the pope’s address to migrants at the John XXIII Peace Lab in Ħal-Far on Saturday, a voluntary organization run by leftist Franciscan friar Fr. Dionysius Mintoff.
‘When you look deeper, you will see that the sea is made of recycled plastic bottles, because there is more plastic than fish in our sea. And the red blobs are life jackets — the lives of people lost at sea,’ artistic director Carlo Schembri explained.
Schembri, who was commissioned to design the key backdrops for the papal visit to Malta, insisted he was being faithful to Francis’ primary reason for visiting the island — to defend migrants and the ecology.
‘The podium will not be adorned with a crucifix, given that the majority of migrants are Muslim,’ the Malta archdiocese noted, in an article published on its website, adding that ‘the pontiff’s visit is expected to draw attention to the brutal situation of Malta’s migrant community.’
‘The majority of the illegal immigrants trafficked to Malta on rickety boats leaving the Libyan coastline are not genuine refugees, but economic migrants — and are mainly Muslim young men aged between 18 and 28,’ Dr. Philip Beattie, president of Pro Malta Christiana, told Church Militant.
‘Saint Paul preached ‘Christ crucified — a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles’ when he brought the gospel to Malta. The Apostle boasted in the scandal of the Cross. Why is the pope ashamed of the Cross before Muslims, especially during Lent?’ asked Beattie, an economist at the University of Malta.
Beattie lamented:
Francis said nothing about the anti-family onslaught unleashed by the LGBTQ+ lobby and their socialist allies during his address to Malta’s president, George Vella. He also remained silent on Prime Minister Robert Abela’s threat to discuss the introduction of euthanasia and extend “full reproductive rights” and “genetic screening” for unborn babies in the Labour 2022 electoral manifesto. Vella and Abela are both Catholic.
The “gifts” Malta has received with illegal immigration are the exploitation of … African and Middle Eastern migrants as cheap labor on Malta’s construction sites and in garbage collection, whilst a considerable number are imprisoned for violent crimes committed against Maltese citizens — robbery and drug trafficking offenses, among others.
However, priests who boycotted the papal visit in protest, fearing that the visit would be manipulated by Abela’s recently elected socialist government, told Church Militant they were pleasantly surprised by the tone of Francis’ addresses.
‘It is almost as if he has had a conversion after consecrating Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary,’ one priest said, noting how Francis had indeed railed against corruption in Malta.
Addressing a distinguished gathering at the presidential palace, the pontiff emphasized the ‘need to shore up the foundations of life in society, which rests on law and legality.’ He called on the president to ‘always cultivate legality and transparency, which will enable the eradication of corruption and criminality — neither of which acts openly and in broad daylight.’
The pope also thundered against the ‘rapacious greed’ of land speculators, saying their ‘avarice’ risks ‘compromising not only the landscape, but the very future.’ The statement has been interpreted by many as a warning to Malta’s archbishop Charles Scicluna — currently embroiled in a land-grab scandal, as Church Militant earlier reported.
Francis also blasted the ‘ideological colonization’ of the current Western worldview ‘that goes against the right to life from the moment it is conceived.’
Dovetailing the issue of abortion with concern for migrants, the pontiff preached:
I am aware of the commitment of the Maltese people to embracing and protecting life. Already in the Acts of the Apostles, the people of this island were known for saving many lives. I encourage you to continue to defend life from its beginning to its natural end — but also to protect it at every moment from being cast aside and deprived of care and concern.
However, faithful Catholics lamented that the pope did not mention the words ‘Jesus,’ ‘sin’ or ‘repentance’ during his address to the predominantly Catholic audience at the presidential palace.
Francis also sent a strong message to Russian oligarchs by not visiting the Sanctuary Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady in Mosta, a shrine the pontiff himself raised to the status of a basilica, another priest told Church Militant. The Maltese hierarchy received 850,000 euros in August 2021 to floodlight the basilica, all from the sale of passport funds.
Amid Western sanctions, Russian oligarchs have been snapping up Maltese passports, which allow them unrestricted access to Europe. Russian citizens represent a quarter of all applicants for Malta’s ‘golden passport’ scheme, which allows high-income individuals to acquire a Maltese passport within one to three years.
‘That Malta is a corruption-ridden tax haven with a financialized economy that has driven waves of unbridled construction that has reduced the island to a mass of concrete, glass and aluminum is hardly a secret,’ Beattie lamented.
‘Indeed, with last week’s expected victory of Abela’s socialists at the general elections, little will change,’ the economist noted. He added that “with this papal visit coming only seven days after the polls, many Maltese were left feeling that, despite the pope’s comments, this visit has in some way ‘canonized’ the present Maltese governing regime.’
Beattie said that the Vatican had ‘conveniently backtracked’ on its ‘own self-declared policy that no papal visit was possible during a 15-day period prior to or after a country’s political elections.’
‘The Labour Party has an unenviable track record in enacting the most liberal, anti-Christian legislation pushing so-called civil liberties over a relatively short space of time,’ Beattie remarked.
In February, after the papal visit was announced, Pro Malta Christiana ran a full-page paid advertisement in The Malta Independent, warning that ‘the dictatorship of relativism which threatens our country is moving Malta in a dangerous secularist and multicultural direction where objective truth will count for nothing.’
‘One can only speculate whether the present Vicar of Christ has really walked in the footsteps of the Apostle St. Paul during his sojourn in Malta,’ Beattie concluded.”
Excuse me! Since when does the head of the Catholic Church have the Cross removed, so not to offend people of another religion? He is there to honour Christ, because he represents the Catholic Church and Christianity, first and foremost, and the Cross should have never been removed! With this rate, let us even stop mentioning Christ, because it is ‘funny’ how if you mention Buddha, Krishna, or whatever, people do not say anything. They might even admire you for that. But if you happen to mention Christ, it is like you push a button of irritability, mockery and anger in them! Clearly, the name ‘Christ’ has something very special in it and it shakes the earth beneath it.
It clearly feels like we are heading to the One World Religion of the New World Order where deism is celebrated at the expense of having the cross removed and where talking about Christ would be considered blasphemous.
And why is it that Pope Francis did not mention the words ‘Jesus,’ ‘sin’ or ‘repentance’ during his address to the predominantly Catholic audience at the presidential palace?
I agree with Dr. Philip Beattie’s observations.
Is Pope Francis the pope that the Masons wanted: a pope who would be sympathetic to humanitarian principles of liberty, equality, fraternity and human dignity at the expense of Truth and at the expense of not honouring Christ?
When Pope Francis came to Malta and removed the cross from the podium so not to offend Muslims
When the cross was removed from the podium when Pope Francis visited Malta last year, it is needless to say that this news was internationally covered, including on Church newspapers like The Church Militant.
[Pope Francis should have reprimanded Abela for ‘encouraging’ employers to have their employees taking the deadly Covid-19 vaccines, with some, losing their job for refusing. But let us not forget that he had stated that taking the Covid-19 vaccines is an act of love.]
The article reads:
“Organizers canceled the crucifix from the papal podium because Pope Francis did not want to offend illegal Muslim migrants during the climax of his Malta trip.
Instead, recycled plastic bottles with red blobs were used to design the backdrop for the pope’s address to migrants at the John XXIII Peace Lab in Ħal-Far on Saturday, a voluntary organization run by leftist Franciscan friar Fr. Dionysius Mintoff.
‘When you look deeper, you will see that the sea is made of recycled plastic bottles, because there is more plastic than fish in our sea. And the red blobs are life jackets — the lives of people lost at sea,’ artistic director Carlo Schembri explained.
Schembri, who was commissioned to design the key backdrops for the papal visit to Malta, insisted he was being faithful to Francis’ primary reason for visiting the island — to defend migrants and the ecology.
‘The podium will not be adorned with a crucifix, given that the majority of migrants are Muslim,’ the Malta archdiocese noted, in an article published on its website, adding that ‘the pontiff’s visit is expected to draw attention to the brutal situation of Malta’s migrant community.’
‘The majority of the illegal immigrants trafficked to Malta on rickety boats leaving the Libyan coastline are not genuine refugees, but economic migrants — and are mainly Muslim young men aged between 18 and 28,’ Dr. Philip Beattie, president of Pro Malta Christiana, told Church Militant.
‘Saint Paul preached ‘Christ crucified — a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles’ when he brought the gospel to Malta. The Apostle boasted in the scandal of the Cross. Why is the pope ashamed of the Cross before Muslims, especially during Lent?’ asked Beattie, an economist at the University of Malta.
Beattie lamented:
However, priests who boycotted the papal visit in protest, fearing that the visit would be manipulated by Abela’s recently elected socialist government, told Church Militant they were pleasantly surprised by the tone of Francis’ addresses.
‘It is almost as if he has had a conversion after consecrating Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary,’ one priest said, noting how Francis had indeed railed against corruption in Malta.
Addressing a distinguished gathering at the presidential palace, the pontiff emphasized the ‘need to shore up the foundations of life in society, which rests on law and legality.’ He called on the president to ‘always cultivate legality and transparency, which will enable the eradication of corruption and criminality — neither of which acts openly and in broad daylight.’
The pope also thundered against the ‘rapacious greed’ of land speculators, saying their ‘avarice’ risks ‘compromising not only the landscape, but the very future.’ The statement has been interpreted by many as a warning to Malta’s archbishop Charles Scicluna — currently embroiled in a land-grab scandal, as Church Militant earlier reported.
Francis also blasted the ‘ideological colonization’ of the current Western worldview ‘that goes against the right to life from the moment it is conceived.’
Dovetailing the issue of abortion with concern for migrants, the pontiff preached:
However, faithful Catholics lamented that the pope did not mention the words ‘Jesus,’ ‘sin’ or ‘repentance’ during his address to the predominantly Catholic audience at the presidential palace.
Francis also sent a strong message to Russian oligarchs by not visiting the Sanctuary Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady in Mosta, a shrine the pontiff himself raised to the status of a basilica, another priest told Church Militant. The Maltese hierarchy received 850,000 euros in August 2021 to floodlight the basilica, all from the sale of passport funds.
Amid Western sanctions, Russian oligarchs have been snapping up Maltese passports, which allow them unrestricted access to Europe. Russian citizens represent a quarter of all applicants for Malta’s ‘golden passport’ scheme, which allows high-income individuals to acquire a Maltese passport within one to three years.
‘That Malta is a corruption-ridden tax haven with a financialized economy that has driven waves of unbridled construction that has reduced the island to a mass of concrete, glass and aluminum is hardly a secret,’ Beattie lamented.
‘Indeed, with last week’s expected victory of Abela’s socialists at the general elections, little will change,’ the economist noted. He added that “with this papal visit coming only seven days after the polls, many Maltese were left feeling that, despite the pope’s comments, this visit has in some way ‘canonized’ the present Maltese governing regime.’
Beattie said that the Vatican had ‘conveniently backtracked’ on its ‘own self-declared policy that no papal visit was possible during a 15-day period prior to or after a country’s political elections.’
‘The Labour Party has an unenviable track record in enacting the most liberal, anti-Christian legislation pushing so-called civil liberties over a relatively short space of time,’ Beattie remarked.
In February, after the papal visit was announced, Pro Malta Christiana ran a full-page paid advertisement in The Malta Independent, warning that ‘the dictatorship of relativism which threatens our country is moving Malta in a dangerous secularist and multicultural direction where objective truth will count for nothing.’
‘One can only speculate whether the present Vicar of Christ has really walked in the footsteps of the Apostle St. Paul during his sojourn in Malta,’ Beattie concluded.”
Excuse me! Since when does the head of the Catholic Church have the Cross removed, so not to offend people of another religion? He is there to honour Christ, because he represents the Catholic Church and Christianity, first and foremost, and the Cross should have never been removed! With this rate, let us even stop mentioning Christ, because it is ‘funny’ how if you mention Buddha, Krishna, or whatever, people do not say anything. They might even admire you for that. But if you happen to mention Christ, it is like you push a button of irritability, mockery and anger in them! Clearly, the name ‘Christ’ has something very special in it and it shakes the earth beneath it.
It clearly feels like we are heading to the One World Religion of the New World Order where deism is celebrated at the expense of having the cross removed and where talking about Christ would be considered blasphemous.
And why is it that Pope Francis did not mention the words ‘Jesus,’ ‘sin’ or ‘repentance’ during his address to the predominantly Catholic audience at the presidential palace?
I agree with Dr. Philip Beattie’s observations.
Is Pope Francis the pope that the Masons wanted: a pope who would be sympathetic to humanitarian principles of liberty, equality, fraternity and human dignity at the expense of Truth and at the expense of not honouring Christ?