Bishop calls on public to join transport strike
May 11, 2008
A prelate from Bacolod diocese has called on the public to support the transport sector in its nationwide strike against the unstoppable increases in the prices of petroleum products today and tommorow.
Bishop Vicente Navarra, in his pastoral letter posted on the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Web site yesterday, noted the government is indifferent to people’s real economic condition as prices of oil and other basic commodities are on the rise.
“Let us call for immediate government intervention to cushion the impact of oil price increases on basic commodities, seek the scrapping of the 12-percent reformed value-added tax and the Oil Deregulation Law, the reclaiming of control of Petron and nationalization the oil industry,” Navarra, in his pastoral letter, said.
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QC parish runs out of gov’t rice on first day of distribution
April 9, 2008
THE Department of Agriculture and the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines yesterday started joint distribution of the staple at the Transfiguration of Our Lord Parish in Cubao, Quezon City.
The stocks ran out only after a few hours.
The parish had asked the National Food Authority for 25 sacks. But the agency told them it could allocate only up to 20 sacks for the parish, said Rolly Retirado, head of the parish’s social service committee.
Retirado said the number of people who lined up at the church patio was simply overwhelming.
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Tame Playboy Enters Philippines publisher assures no bare-breasted women
April 4, 2008
You won’t see bare-breasted women in Playboy’s Philippine edition that hits newsstands next week, but the mag does promise “anything under the sun of interest to men.”
“The Philippine edition has been adjusted to our culture, including the fact that we are a predominantly Catholic country and a little more conservative,” Dolor said.
While flesh will be featured, “there will not be full frontal nudity,” Dolor said, stressing that they were not out to compete with the local editions of “lad magazines” FHM and Maxim, which are more explicit.
“We are targeting a different demographic — the slightly mature, more upscale men,” Dolor said.
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Fertilizer scam to blame for ‘Rice Crisis’ - CBCP
April 3, 2008
The influential head of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) blamed the looming rice shortage on the government’s apparent mismanagement of a multimillion-peso fertilizer fund.
The Arroyo government was accused of diverting the fertilizer fund, intended to boost rice production, to supporting instead the campaign coffers of the administration ticket during the May 2004 elections.
The CBCP president, Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, said in a one-page statement Thursday that the “impending” rice shortage could have been prevented if the government had handled well the P729-million fertilizer fund.
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Gloria ‘excommunicated’ - ‘No communion for GMA, a public sinner’ — Archbishop Cruz
March 26, 2008
President Arroyo has been virtually excommunicated by an Archbishop, saying she is a “public sinner” who must be denied communion, intimating that it would be making a mockery of the sacred host which, to Catholics, is the body and blood of Jesus Christ effected through transubstantiation, for her to be given any communion.
Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz yesterday made waves with his announcement of denying the President communion, which is a form of excommunication, or at the very least, a humiliating repudiation of a member of the Catholic flock, excluding her from the grant of the sacrament.
Wikipedia describes excommunication as a religious censure used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. The word literally means putting (someone) out of communion.
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Palace mulls executive privilege for Poblador
March 16, 2008
Even as the Catholic Church steps up the pressure on President Arroyo to come clean by allowing government officials to tell all on the anomalous National Broadband Network (NBN) contract, Malacañang said yesterday it may invoke “executive privilege” to prevent Mrs. Arroyo’s personal confidante Remedios “Medy” Poblador from being summoned to the Senate.
Poblador was named by Sen. Panfilo Lacson as the person NBN witness Leo San Miguel was talking to and was given an assurance by San Miguel to deny knowledge of details about the NBN contract raised in the Senate inquiry.
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Sergio Apostol said on the phone that although Executive Order 464 and Memorandum Circular 108, which are called gag rules since these effectively prevent officials from attending legislative inquiries by requiring them to seek approval from the President before appearing in the hearings, were revoked the executive privilege is provided for under the Constitution.
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Graft a sin, but spare Gloria from ouster says bishops
March 14, 2008
Metro Manila Catholic bishops yesterday denounced corruption in the Arroyo government but warned against removing President Arroyo from power.
The bishops, in a pastoral letter signed by Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, along with other Metro Manila bishops, called on the people to reject violence in a statement issued ahead of a youth-led anti-Arroyo protest rally in Manila.
The group of bishops said irregularities in government contracts, among other things, violate God’s Seventh Commandment.
As repentance, the irregularities in the government contracts must be returned from the original owner and, if not found, for the money to be given to the poor.
The letter entitled “Toward a morally rebuilt nation” was issued as the country continues to face a flurry of social and political issues.
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