Background
Busuttil was born at Sliema, Malta in 1891.
Busuttil was born at Sliema, Malta in 1891.
He studied at the Lyceum and at the University of Malta, and later joined the Jesuits.
In philosophy he was mostly interested in politics and labour rights. He was ordained a priest in 1922. Afterwards, he taught ethics in Ireland, and history of philosophy in Catania, Sicily.
In Malta he taught philosophy, apologetics, mathematics, physics, and sociology.
Between 1928 and 1945 Busuttil was Prefect of Studies at Saint Aloysius College, Malta. After the war he was than especially close to workers who were part of the newly founded General Workers Union, particularly at the shipyards.
To people like Busuttil, the main worry in those days was the infiltration of the communist ideology within the workers’ movement. In 1947 he was appointed Spiritual Director of the union, an office he held up till 1951.
He died in 1956.