The Shift News has just exposed a cosy little secret hiding in plain sight: the Apap Institute, one of the Church’s prized properties, has been discreetly leased to a Saudi businessman who recently bought himself a Maltese passport — all neatly packaged to generate €1 million a year for the Curia’s pockets.
Sounds lucrative? It is. But let’s cut through the incense smoke and ask what no one else dares:
Who was the notary orchestrating this sweetheart deal for the Curia?
Could it possibly be Robert Aquilina — the very same self-styled ‘guardian of democracy’ who, while lecturing the nation about morality and corruption, stands accused in court of domestic violence and the illegal arrest of his wife?
Let that sink in:
A man with a pending court case for battering his own spouse might very well be handling multi-million euro contracts for Malta’s highest religious institution. If so, the moral high ground the Church likes to preach from has just sunk beneath sea level.
Charles Ġuda
So, let’s break this down for Archbishop Charles Scicluna and his spin machine:
- A Saudi golden passport holder now enjoys a prime Church property on a long-term lease.
- The faithful get more sermons about sacrifice and charity.
- The Curia banks a million a year, thank you very much.
- And the possible notary behind this? A man facing charges that should make any reputable institution run a mile.
Is this the ‘moral compass’ we’re supposed to look up to? Is this the clean hands the Church boasts about every Sunday?
We deserve answers:
- Was Robert Aquilina the notary acting for the Curia on this Saudi lease?
- If not, then who?
- And does the Archdiocese think it’s acceptable to do hush-hush business with golden passport buyers while pretending to stand for transparency?
Until they come clean, spare us the Sunday homilies about truth and decency. Right now, the only thing clear is that the Church’s million-euro payday reeks of the same hypocrisy it loves to condemn — when it suits.
Over to you, Archbishop.
