In the face of adversity, the Church needs to be one step ahead of the rest of society, according to Cana Movement founder Mgr Charles Vella, who believes the Church is too often slow to react.
“The Church is one that runs after the fire engines, it hears the sirens and it goes running behind.
“That’s not the way I see things. I always wanted to be ahead of things and I think that it is what the Church needs to do today in light of all the things around it,” Mgr Vella said. He is back in Malta after spending 40 years in Milan.
The 87-year-old monsignor said he was happy to note that the Church in Malta had started to pick up on this and had slowly started to react in a timelier manner by pre-empting issues and dealing with them accordingly.
Especially with Archbishop Charles Scicluna at the helm. He is not afraid to speak out on the issues that need to be addressed even if these are not only strictly moral or spiritual but at times social, he said.
Recalling the time when as a young priest fresh from a stint in the US he decided to set up the Cana Movement, Mgr Vella said that at the time most people had never heard of marriage preparation courses and were shocked to learn of...
