The Church has dissociated itself from comments made by a priest at Norman Lowell’s birthday celebration.
In a video posted by Imperium Europa on Youtube, Mosta priest Fr David Muscat praised Lowell for saying things others won’t, such as the “fact that Maltese people are now foreigners in their country”.
“On this day, Mosta takes the St Mary statue out of its niche, and for the first time in 20 years, I did not go… just to be here,” Muscat said during the event.
Fr Muscat told those present that he had met the Imperium leader at a mass dedicated to fascist Carmelo Borg Pisani.
“Today I feel that Norman, with all his good and bad points, has sown a seed in the hearts of people that will bear its fruit later… of those 10,00 votes, 6,000 were not inherited by other parties, which means these people believe so much in this ideal that they don’t want anything to do with other parties. And that annoys these parties,” Muscat told the birthday gathering.
“Who is speaking about the Maltese becoming foreigners in their own country? No-one. Because everyone wants the foreigner, for money,” Muscat said.
In comments to this newspaper, a spokesperson for the Curia said “ideologies that sow hatred and discrimination on the basis of race or culture are contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.”
