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“I met Mgr Gonzi and he had all my writings laid out on his desk. He told me that if I ‘converted’ he would even have officiated the wedding ceremony himself at the Palace”
Joe Micallef Stafrace
“When I said I felt I had done no wrong, he insisted I could only get married in the sacristy, even denying me the right to get married in a chapel. I later learnt that a number of priests had urged my wife-to-be to leave me. Can you imagine that?” Despite all this, I still wanted a Church wedding. When Yvonne was asked whether she’d take me as her husband she yelled out ‘yes’, her voice resounding well beyond the thick walls of the sacristy”
“A lump rises in my throat as I write this... Blood was not shed. Yet hatred was sown and took root. That can be worse than spilling of blood.” Mgr Gonzi had become obsessed with the belief that the Labour Party was inching closer to Communism”
Lino Spiteri
“Whether it was a figment of Mgr Gonzi’s imagination, or whether Dom Mintoff deliberately gave that impression, it was the climax of the bitter Church-Labour dispute and the beginning of eight years of social banishment of MLP supporters.”
“It is my hope and wish that other Political alliances, first and foremost amongst hem the Nationalist Party will have the courage to make an apology for their passive and active role throughout the years especially in the 60s and in even more recent times where hardship with moral and physical violence was caused to citizens whose only misdemeanor was they were supported the Malta Labour Party.”
Joseph Muscat
