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I refer to the feature by James Debono entitled ‘Over our dead bodies’, which reported the appeal of 450 farmers to the Bishop against the new cemetery in Nadur. (1 April)
The disdain and arrogance with which the Gozitan Curia has ignored its own parishioners initially appeared to be a sick April Fool’s joke. What a shame on the local church.
I had hoped that in communion with the farmers’ petition, the church would have taken an exemplary lead in conserving the environment and natural heritage before any financial consideration.
The Catholic Church should not be a role model to those who speculatively exploit the countryside in pursuit of unsustainable development. By adding a new cemetery overlooking Ramla Bay in Nadur, the church stands to make Lm 450,000 from the sale of 75 per cent of the proposed graves in the new cemetery.
Is this the lucrative way the two “new” Bishops intend treating farmers, the few non-land speculators left on our islands?
Sammy Grech
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