Dalli: Clergy Should Not Escape Justice

Times of Malta
April 3, 2014

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140403/local/Dalli-clergy-should-not-escape-justice.513339

Civil Liberties Minister Helena Dalli yesterday questioned why it should be acceptable for a priest who abused children to be treated differently from another person.

“Why should a priest be simply defrocked while another person is imprisoned?” she asked in Parliament.

She was speaking during the third reading of a Bill to amend the Marriage Act, which will remove the supremacy of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal over the law courts in annulment proceedings and bring about a clearer separation of Church and State.

But one had to ensure the supremacy of...