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...Spiteri Gonzi...
...through him, Benelli has already earned the nickname "the Berlin Wall." He has also, inevitably, bruised many clerical feelings. "Benelli is a Tuscan," said one Vatican critic. "He has inherited traditional Tuscan pigheadedness. He is ruthless." Not everyone is intimidated. Not knowing that the Pope had asked Archbishop Michael Gonzi of Malta, then 82, to stay on in office, Benelli sent word asking the prelate to vacate his see within two weeks. Gonzi stormed to Rome. "You've been a bishop two years," he said indignantly when Benelli finally received him. "I've been a bishop...
Mortal Sin. As Prime Minister from 1955 till 1958, Mintoff advocated policies that Malta's Archbishop, Sir Michael Gonzi, feared would limit the church's control over education, religion and family life. Gonzi protested the importation of badly needed teachers because many were non-Maltese Catholics ("They are born and bred in a Protestant atmosphere, and can never become perfect Catholics...
This feud set the stage for the bitterest election campaign in the island's history. Lined up against the Labor Party were five other parties, all acceptable to Archbishop Gonzi. While Mintoff ran on a hate-Britain platform that urged an independent, neutralist Malta, his chief opponents, the Nationalists, advocated independence within the Commonwealth. (The island currently has self-government except in defense and foreign affairs, which are supervised by a British high commissioner.) But in the months leading up to last week's election, foreign policy issues were overshadowed by the emotional struggle between church and state...
...year-old Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, a Laborite, cannily won British support with hints that independence might be the only alternative. In a referendum in February Mintoff secured a majority for integration, among those Maltese who voted. But the sizable number of abstentions reflected the opposition of Archbishop Michael Gonzi, a powerful voice in Roman Catholic Malta, who feared that integration might limit the church's influence over the island's education, religion and family life (Britain proposes that church-state relations be handled by Malta's own Parliament, which will continue to govern local affairs after...
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