Once more, can we ask the Catholic hierarchy to please refrain from intervening in local government affairs, especially politics? Don't they have so much to do in their own yard to make the faithful more religious rather than rebellious? Why be the first to obstruct justice in the guise of being pro-poor?
i agree wholeheartedly! the bishops should just shut up & let the powerful trample the rights of the lowly & the oppressed, the very people they are called to serve. they shouldn't be interfering with politics by doing their jobs and defending their flock against the abuses of the government and teaching them about non-violent struggle. heck, we don't want anything like a people power revolt to happen because of those meddling bishops.
oh, by the way, the 1986 thing was just a spontaneous gathering of a massive number of people who mysteriously found themselves in edsa for no reason. the bishops had no hand in it. in fact they should've remained mum about the massive electoral fraud of the 1986 snap elections, instead of issuing that pastoral letter condemning the marcos administration for cheating. now that was just plain politicking which made some military folks decide to launch a mutiny.
cardinal sin's call for the faithful to protect the mutineers from the marines to avoid bloodshed, obviously fell on deaf ears, because we all know that the filipinos hate it when their cardinal interferes in one of the most incredible moments in our history.
the cardinal plainly violated the principle of the separation of church & state when he sent nuns, priests and seminarians to pray in front of the marines' massive amphibious vehicles. the people who went there for no apparent reason may have found the scene interesting so they probably joined the nuns in front of the tanks to satisfy their curiosity. but they clearly didn't want to be involved with something called people power. anyway, the marines were there to carry out a legitimate government operation to crush a rebellion, ordered by the competent and legitimate authority. the mere presence of these church people to stop the military operation shows the contempt the church has for the laws of the land which clearly upholds the separation of church and state.
that was 18 years ago but until now these bishops are just obstinately putting their hands into the cookie jar of politics. they should just stop it.
yep, they should quit fielding in personnel for groups like the national movement for free elections, which purpotedly guards against counting fraud by doing silly quick counts. wouldn't it be better and simpler if we don't have them around? their quick count simply confuses the public. who cares if the comelec count is full of crap? the poor should just accept it as it is, because wealth & might are always right and the bishops are just interfering.
they should also abolish the pastoral council for responsible voting because we all know that educating filipino voters about their electoral rights & obligations, and guarding their ballots are just blatant violations of the principle of the separation of church and state. and we don't want that right?
in fact we should get rid of our bishops and have them replaced with spineless ones like the bishops many american catholics are complaining about. those people are so lucky to have such spineless men to govern, teach and sanctify them, yet they remain ungrateful and dissatisfied that they even setup a blog to find people like our bishops who interfere with politics, and they praise bishops who actually condemn US catholic politicians who support abortion. i mean, hasn't this gone far enough? shouldn't they just let the state do its job and allow millions of babies to be killed? isn't it the right of the state to kills its citizens?
the bishops are just interfering. they should refrain from intervening in government affairs.
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