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The garden of forgiveness: healing the trauma of the Interdett

A Church property in Valletta is being eyed as a reparative gesture for the 1961 Interdiction of Labour voters. But not even the Labour administration has yet sought a national site to honour the victims and memory of this great intergenerational wound, writes Matthew Vella ....

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The Unholy War: a five-part series on Malta's Interdett – Part 1


The Unholy War: a five-part series on Malta’s Interdett – Part 1
First of a MaltaToday series on the January 1961 Church Interdett, first published in MaltaToday in 2005
17 April 2021, 5:34pm
by Michaela Muscat
In January 1961, the diocesan commission issued a circular which was read out in all churches condemning the MLP’s affiliation with the Socialist International and the Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organisation. In a bid to wield its power over the god-fearing masses, it declared a sin the reading of Labour newspapers and the attendance of MLP meetings.
The events of the sixties would re-carve Maltese society as Gonzi’s ‘holy soldiers’ battled Mintoff’s ‘evil’ ‘soldiers of steel’ (suldati ta’ l-azzar), the total number of people who had voted in favour of Labour’s proposal for integration of the Maltese islands with the United Kingdom. ....

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Scar tissue: The aftermath of the interdett – Part Five


Scar tissue: The aftermath of the interdett – Part Five
Fifth and final part of a MaltaToday series on the January 1961 Church Interdett, first published in MaltaToday in 2005
17 April 2021, 5:37pm
by Michaela Muscat
“THE IMPOSITION of the interdett and the mortal sin in the sixties left a traumatic effect on the life of all of those who experienced it. A great pain that is still felt today,” says Wenzu Mintoff, the Labour politician and Dom Mintoff’s nephew.
He believes that at least another two generations have to pass before the great hurts are not felt anymore. “To show how a hurt like this lasts for long one only has to read the biography of Mabel Strickland who until her death could not find reassurance on whether her father Lord Gerald Strickland, who had also been affected by the imposition of the mortal sin in the 30s with Boffa’s labourites, had been ex-communicated from the church and had managed to save his soul.” ....

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