MALTA
Malta Today
Jurgen Balzan 8 September 2015
Gozo bishop Mario Grech’s “reprehensible behaviour” could have cost him the post of Archbishop which Paul Cremona vacated last year due to medical reasons.
A letter that MaltaToday has seen shows how members of the clergy raised their concerns on Grech with high-ranking members of the Holy See, including Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who heads the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community.
Sources said that Grech was favourite to fill in Cremona’s boots but that the Vatican opted for Charles Scicluna at the eleventh hour, when it is thought that the protests voiced by members of the clergy swayed the decision Scicluna’s way.
This apparently soured Grech’s relationship with some elements of the Gozitan Church who warned the Vatican of his negative and “hostile” attitude.
Various clergymen spoke to MaltaToday since its report last week on how Grech had failed to carry out the Vatican’s order to defrock Dominic Camilleri – up to last week Camilleri still said mass in a private chapel and presented himself as a priest.
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