The Church has again dissociated itself from the Ġesù Salvatur Christian community after an investigation confirmed reports that it was giving a confused and wrong interpretation of Church teachings.
In a statement, the Maltese Episcopal Conference said the five-month probe was led by Mgr Hector Scerri, theologian and President of the Doctrinal Commission within the conference.
The probe began last July when the media published interviews with three former members of the Catholic group, who claimed it had discouraged them from dating non-members. Another woman claimed she had been told not to keep her lesbian daughter at home in case she was under some form of curse.
[WATCH] Maltese Church denounces Gesu Salvatur cult, says it causes ‘untold harm to members’
A five-month church investigation has concluded that the Christian community group Komunità Ġesu Salvatur is causing ‘untold harm’ to its members • Bishops bar priests, religious from offering service, ask lay people not to attend meetings
8 January 2021, 12:28pm
by Kurt Sansone
A Christian community that adopts a “fundamentalist interpretation” of the scripture acts like a cult and is causing “untold harm” to members, a church investigation has concluded.
The five-month probe of the Komunità Ġesu Salvatur was prompted by the public confession of a former member who decried the community’s grip on its members.