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THE House of Representatives has given its consent
for the State to kill. We, your bishops, are overcome
with grief but we are not defeated nor shall we be
silenced. In the midst of Lent we prepare to celebrate
the triumph of Life over Death, and while we grieve
that the Lower House has voted for death, our faith
of death penalty
assures us that Life will triumph.
We call on all Catholic faithful and all Filipinos
who stand for life to continue the spirited opposition
to death penalty. We urge Catholic lawyers, judges
and jurists to allow the gentleness of the Gospel of
Life to illumine their reading and application of the
law, so that their service to society as teachers and
agents of the law and of justice may bring life. It is
indeed that we may have life to the full that the Lord
came into our midst.
They may have won but it does not mean that
they are right.
+SOCRATES B. VILLEGAS
Archbishop of Lingayen Dagupan
President, CBCP
March 7, 2017
Students of San Beda College - Manila, President Rodrigo Dutertes alma mater, hold a candle lighting protest in solidarity with several Catholic schools nationwide that staged
simultaneous Noise for Life against the extrajudicial killings and the proposed revival of the death penalty, March 8, 2017. ROY LAGARDE
Bishop Pablo David of Kalookan with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Sept. 7, 2016.
By Roy Lagarde Lawmakers on March 7 voted 217-54 grief but we are not defeated nor shall LOSSERVATORE ROMANO
to resurrect the death penalty bill, which we be silenced, Villegas said.
seeks to reimpose capital punishment In the midst of Lent we prepare to IT is the governments a revisit of the governments
CATHOLIC bishops are for heinous drug-related crimes. celebrate the triumph of life over death, prerogative if it wants to income tax policy, claiming
grieving over the approval Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop and while we grieve that the lower House impose tax on religious that some schools cater
by an overwhelming vote at Socrates Villegas, Catholic Bishops has voted for death, our faith assures us schools but the move should to students from higher-
Conference of the Philippines president, that life will triumph, he said. be studied thoroughly, income families and hike
the House of Representa- lamented that the lower House has At the same time, the archbishop
tives of a measure to revive Catholic bishops said. tuition.
given its consent for the State to kill. called on the Filipinos who stand for life Bishop Pablo David of The bishops and various
the capital punishment. We, your bishops, are overcome with Death / A6 Kalookan said that the church organizations have
Church would probably been strongly vocal against
Ombudsman to seminarians: Dont let greed ruin environment, not be running schools if
only the government could
the extrajudicial killings as
a result of the governments
Help fight corruption, injustice says Archbishop Arguelles adequately provide quality
education, especially on
war on drugs and the revival
of the death penalty.
the primary and secondary San Jose Bishop Roberto
levels. Mallari, chairman of the
The fact is, it cannot, CBCP Commission on
David said. We always Catechesis and Catholic
thought that we in the Education, asked lawmakers
Church were doing the to get to know more the
government a favor by Catholic schools and its
making quality education contributions to society.
available wherever the state In fact, government
is unable to do it adequately. should even think of
This failure, he said, is supporting them to
visible in public schools maximize the good that they
where many students are can do, Mallari said.
cramped in classrooms and
the huge backlog in the Free education?
construction of classrooms David warned that some
and the ne ed for more Catholic schools are even
More than 500 Theology seminarians attend the opening Mass of the Kapatiran Environment Secretary Gina Lopez (left), Archbishop Ramon Arguelles (2nd from right)
2017 at the UST Chapel in Manila on Saturday, March 4, 2017. Kapatiran is an teachers. closing because of lack of
and other rallyists raise their fists during the Walk for the Environment outside the
annual gathering of Philippine Seminarians Network, an association of major Senate building in Manila on Wednesday, March 1, 2017. ROY LAGARDE He added that even the resources and the escalating
seminarians from various diocesan seminaries and formation houses around the governments resources are salaries of teachers.
country. ROY LAGARDE still not enough to provide He added that many
WHAT has selfishness got said greed and indifference
THE countrys anti- Speaking before a to do with the destruction are the source of all the decent education to all its Catholic schools have been
graft chief has called on gathering of seminarians of the environment? A lot, a environmental problems the citizens. suffering because of the
seminarians to help uproot at the University of Santo Catholic archbishop said. country is facing today. We merely augment the exodus of teachers to the
the widespread culture of Tomas on Saturday, In his Ash Wednesday Selfishness is the cause of lack when the government public schools where they
corruption and be more Ombudsman Conchita homily, Lipa Archbishop the worlds many problems. cannot adequately provide can get a better pay and the
active in fighting injustices. Fight / A3 Emeritus Ramon Arguelles Greed / A7
it, David said. We do not the declining population
even rely on public funds to brought by free education.
run our schools. Pretty soon we may have
Cardinal Tagle: Real change must come from within ourselves Should they not treat us to close down some of them,
as their partners and allies David said.
CARDINAL Luis Antonio Tagle put is that it does not focus oneself but on peace, nothing will change, Tagle said. rather than as adversaries? And contrary to public
ashes on the foreheads of faithful God, through His Word, and on others. I hope these 40 days of Lent we he said. perception, the bishop said
Wednesday to usher in the Lenten When there is little change in the intensify our prayers as well as in Speaker Pantaleon that public schools are not
season. society, we should look inside us, he reading and listening to Gods word, Alvarez, who once called entirely free because they are
In his homily, he said Lent is the said. he added. the bishops as a bunch run with taxpayers money.
time when Catholics should look into The cardinal also cited a line from the Aside from getting on track spiritually, of hypocrites, yesterday Thats not a bad thing in
themselves and repent of their sins. song Let There Be Peace on Earth that Cardinal Tagle said that Lent is also a said church-owned schools itself. Were of course happy
Changing the self, he said, is how one is often sung in churches in explaining time of good works and charity. should be taxed to improve when public education is
can be the change. his point. He urged the faithful to take part of the governments revenue upgraded for the benefit of
Maybe our most important We often sing Let there be peace on the Manila archdioceses Fast2Feed collection. the poor but lets not have
contribution to the country and the Earth, and let it begin with me. For as program, which aims to feed hungry At the hearing on the any illusion about it. It is
world today is conversion, Tagle said. long as we dont turn the heart towards children not just in Manila but also from Duterte administrations not free! It is paid for by the
And a key aspect to this transformation God, neighbor, justice, truth, caring, other provinces. (CBCPNews) tax reform bill, he called for Tax / A7
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