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WATCH: Maltese Priest Condemns Sexual Abuse Within Church In Emotional Homily Share: Maltese priest Rob Galea delivered an impassioned homily in Australia last Sunday, condemning the sexual abuse that has gripped the Church and apologising on behalf of them. Galea was giving an online sermon about the Cleansing of the Temple, the time Jesus angrily drove merchants out of the Temple, and interpreting it as the wrath of Christ upon discovering that a place of refuge had become a place of exploitation. Here, he proceeded to draw parallels with the Church, and the several sexual abuse cases that...

The case against two Xagħra priests charged with sexually abusing an altar boy will be heard behind closed doors, a Gozitan court ruled on Monday.   Magistrate Bridgette Sultana issued a decree ordering the proceedings to be held behind closed doors “in the interest of full justice”.  She also barred the press from further reporting on the alleged perpetrators before the proceedings end.   The priests, aged 70, and 84, have both denied sexual abuse charges.  The priests, both of Xagħra, are alleged to have defiled the minor and held him against his will between 2003 and 2005. The 7...

The Vatican has banned the former archpriest of Xagħra, who was investigated for sexually abusing an altar boy more than two decades ago, from ever again exerci

The former Archpriest of Xagħra, Gozo, Mgr Eucharist Sultana, was investigated by the police over allegations of having sexually abused a teenage altar boy but no criminal action had been taken as the case was time-barred, a police spokesman has told Times of Malta.  Sultana was investigated in 2018 at the same time that he was stopped from carrying out any priestly duties, including saying mass.  Earlier this week he was one of the witnesses summoned by the police in the case against two other priests who were arraigned last week and accused of abusing an altar boy. He told the court that...