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Post by maolsheachlann on Feb 11, 2019 15:06:11 GMT
Yesterday was a national feast in Malta, commemorating the incident in the Acts of the Apostles in which St. Paul was shipwrecked there. I presume it is a genuine liturgical feast there, and not just a popular devotion. I can't find much information about it-- I'd never heard about it before. I post it out of general interest-- other members of the forum also seem interested in these details of the Cathlic liturgical calendar and in regional variations. www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/92883/st_pauls_feast_have_the_maltese_fallen_out_of_love_with_sunday_mass__#.XGGN4qCny70The article makes for rather grim reading. I am a defender of cultural Catholicism, as far as it goes, but this article shows its limits.
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 11, 2019 20:19:35 GMT
There is a long Maltese tradition of division between clericals and anti-clericals, though this can coexist with underlying belief. Perhaps there is more of a parallel between Ireland and Malta since the 60s than we realise en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Mintoff
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