Meeting between the Archbishop and Fr Mark Montebello O.P.

Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna and Fr Joe Galea Curmi, Vicar General, today, Tuesday 14th April 2015, at noon, met with the Provincial of the Maltese Dominican Province, Fr Frans Micallef O.P. and Fr Mark Montebello O.P., at the Archbishop’s Curia, Floriana. During the cordial meeting, the Archbishop encouraged Fr Mark to continue his outreach to gay people, and requested that he continue to follow Church practice and discipline in his ministry, especially in the celebration of sacred rites and Church rituals. Fr Mark thanked the Archbishop and the Vicar General for their support and agreed that in his pastoral ministry to gay people he would continue to follow Church practices and discipline.