From Ms L Houlton
Every time I read Daphne Caruana Galizia’s articles in this newspaper, I can’t help being puzzled by the tone and style she uses to voice her opinions. I am amazed by her clarity, and the way she sees life, issues and controversies in black and white terms. I can understand how readers can be hypnotised by it and cry “bravo bravo” for having figured life all out and announcing it to the whole world. I am tired of the way Ms Caruana Galizia throws her formula of ‘A+B=C’ of living life at the public, sounding like a post-modern equivalent of the Greek oracle, the “Caruana Galizia guide to postmodern living”.
No Ms Caruana Galizia... life is not that simple. And I wish you would respect that, if not out of compassion for your readers, then as your duty as a journalist. Of course as a practising Catholic, I don’t agree with many of the issues you mentioned and perhaps many people want a change in the Church’s doctrine. No I don’t believe in changing beliefs to suit our comfortable way of living. But at the same time, I am aware that life is complex and I don’t dare look for quick solutions. Religions are not bought or sold when convenient. Many human beings are more spiritual than that, or than how Ms. Caruana Galizia figures them out to be. They are really struggling to decide on the right thing to do and they do look to the Church for guidance.
I can fully understand and have compassion for those people who are struggling to reconcile their faith with their everyday needs and life experience: for example, the Catholic homosexuals who seek spiritual guidance yet have their need for sexual intimacy, or Catholic separated people who try to live according to their faith, while they cope with their loneliness and their desire to be given a second chance to love. Change can be desired in the Church and if it happens, it is a sign of growth.
So please Ms Caruana Galizia if you want to be more respectful to the truth, sprinkle your articles with compassion, and be more respectful towards life, its readers and their complex problems.
Louisa Houlton
ATTARD