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Interdict for a Maltese Editor
ARCHBISHOP GON ZI of Malta has condemned "Struggle," organ of the "Labour League of Youth" (Malta), and forbidden the writing, selling or reading of it, under pain of mortal sin. Ile has also laid the penalty of personal interdict on its 26-yearold editor, Mr. Lorry Sant. according to the terms of Canon 2291 section 2 and Canon 2275. The Bishop of Gozo has extended the same prohibitions to his diocese.
The Editor was warned on March 12 that unless a satisfactory declaration on abusive comments about the bishops in the March issue were made, the above penalties would have to be imposed. A declaration received on April 5 was considered unsatisfactory and in fact did not appear in the April issue. Hence the present action.
An interdict is an ecclesiastical censure, which may be generator particular, local or personal, which excludes for those affected by it the reception or administration of certain sacraments. Only the Holy See can lay an interdict on a diocese; a bishop only on a parish or other locality or on an individual.
"However painful these disciplinary measures", states a correspondent in Malta, "the bishop was really given no choice by the selfconceited juvenile writers. The articles were personally offensive to the Archbishop and harmful to the readers of the paper. It had been widely felt in Malta that it was no longer safe to allow the growing impression that the Church authorities would never move.
"The interdict does not imply ecclesiastical condemnation of Labour party principles in so far as these do not affect faith and morals. There are those who hold that the Malta Labour Party has now gone beyond its original social reform ideals and entered into a combative ideology critical of the defence of the free West and in the long run hound to point Eastwards."




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