ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the temples, as sacred places, can be seen to constitute another common ground between some Catholics and Pagans. While Maltese Pagans share a strong attachment to the temples with the foreign Pagans who love to visit them. Maltese Pagans also share an affinity for the temples with other local people, an affinity which has more to do with class, education, attitudes to heritage, landscape, ecology, history and archaeology than to do with an individual's particular religious path. Archaeological opinion has long held that the Temple Culture was entirely wiped out by, or became extinct before the arrival of, waves of later peoples: the Bronze Age people, the Phoenicians, the Romans and so on. The priest's direct linking of the Neolithic temples with the heritage of neighbouring church, and the effort made to find parallels between the Neolithic religion and Catholic religion mused about whether an Anglican priest would ever be likely to celebrate Holy Communion at Stonehenge.
