Having read the book by Pope Francis 'Let us dream. The path of better future' (Simon and Schuster UK Ltd- 2020), it struck me that, perhaps, the Holy Father had something to tell us Maltese too. “We are living in a time of trial”, he writes. The same is happening in Malta. The Bible talks of going through fire to describe such trials, like a kiln testing the potter’s handiwork (Sirach, 27:5). When going through a crisis of crisis, you get both good and bad. In a crisis, there is always the temptation to retreat. Is Malta, today, in a crisis of faith, principles, values and, especially, direction of where it wants to go? It is in search of easy principles and inclined to give up the truth, obliterate our history and the beautiful and, instead, build our own ethics on satisfaction, money and power. We are not able to have priorities. We do not care what others did to build Malta of today. “In moments of crisis,” the pope writes, “people reveal themselves as they are. Some spend themselves in the service of those in need and some get rich at the expense of other people’s needs.” We must not be indifferent and the pontiff tells us why: “Indifference blocks the Spirit by closing us...