Archbishop Cremona steers away from divorce issue in Independence Day homily

Cremona explained that the Maltese people, led by its political leaders, “felt that it had to build on this and therefore we have also arrived to celebrate as a continuation of this, Republic Day on 13 December and Freedom Day on 31 March.

“During these years, the Maltese people moved forward politically to obtain furthermore its political identity,” Cremona explained.

However, Cremona himself stated that while Malta was celebrating these events in the light its Catholic faith, “I want to make a little spiritual reflection about the Maltese people”.

Cremona extolled the importance of making “a spiritual reflection” on the events currently taking place in Malta.

“With this I mean that while we live the historical moments in our lives, we compare them with some fundamental values that are the milieu of our social and political lives”, Cremona told the congregation at St John’s Co-Cathedral.

“This major fundamental value is man, every man,” he insisted.

“If in his personal life, man does not make a reflection on his fundamental values, he will soon realise that he or she is leaving behind these values,” Cremona insisted.

Cremona warned that if the number of experiences passed without any reflections on his fundamental values, “one will lose sight of them and would be led only by purely utilitarian reasons”.

“The question that I would like to ask today is this: where is this reflection whether man, from whom each civilisation started, is still at the centre of this civilisation, or other things or considerations have instead taken their place?” Cremona asked.

“You cannot have any kind of reflection where our society reflects on this political and economical, financial and social situation to see whether the starting point, man, and his personal dignity, are moving with the other way – the technological, financial, economic and social way,” Cremona lamented.