Pope Dissolves Knights of Malta Leadership
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As the Grandson of a Maltese catholic, I can tell you this is going to be a big deal in Malta.
You been, dude?
It’s an… Interesting place.
Excellent party scene, though (I was there for a leadership conference, lol) - I would give that aspect… 8.5 out of 10, probably, lol.
But yeah, in Valletta and around (the “three cities” area), you can see the influence of the knights absolutely everywhere…
I stayed in a 500-year-old apartment with a 4-inch thick wooden door, to protect against attacks. In the morning I would walk down past the cathedral that the order built, and go watch the sunrise over a fortress that the order used to protect the harbour.
It was a pretty extraordinary place.
Unfortunately I was so depressed and anxious at the time that I spent an awful lot of time… Just breaking down in my hotel room (during the conference, lol), so I missed out on a lot of what I would have seen and experienced otherwise, but yeah…
I would do things differently now (I hope), but I met some amazing Maltese women, both there and over here (more Maltese in Aus than in Malta, now, after all!), so… That’s a heritage to be “proud” of, I feel.
Good country. Good people. Amazing place to visit.
Yes, you can't move ten yards on the islands without encountering its history of being fought over and repeatedly conquered and reconquered for Christendom or the Ummah (Producing the only Arab language written using Latin characters), all the way through to its most recent successful defense in the second world war.
Dissolving the Knights of Malta feels like deliberately abandoning the islands to Islam for no reason whatsoever.
But dereliction and desecration of the faith is precisely what I expect from this heretic 'pope'.