aaahhh, one of my favorite writers; a choice cut. thanks, fr chic!
The issue of the bishops’ Pajeros was from the start an obvious demolition job directed at the Catholic Church so as to weaken its resistance to the birth-control bill which is immorally premised on the hope and proposition that only the select few (who can afford it) deserve to be born into the next generation.
not, for the life of me, will the church weaken its stand. but it may weaken the support of the faithful. we can only hope not. rumored pajeros have nothing to do with the odious project of having fewer of us only because it would mean more mouths to feed. (since when did poverty become a blight, or a sin?)
I have elsewhere conclusively proved, in an article of Tolstoyan proportions and Kantian acuity, that the bill has only slimmest relevance to reproductive health and women’s empowerment, while Nobel laureate Amartya Sen proved that educating women better empowers them to say “no†to more children than their mates can pay to maintain.
The real and only purpose of the misleadingly labeled reproductive-health bill is to enforce artificial birth control on a rampantly randy colored race through the free distribution of expensive contraceptives (not covered by the Cheaper Medicine Act) to be sold by the giant pharmaceutical firms that are bankrolling the RH bill. There is no birth-control program anywhere in the white world.
right on!
To continue, the vehicles purchased by the bishops with money given by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office were not Pajeros but second- even thirdhand utility vehicles for social work. None of the vehicles could be described—as the PCSO and government spokesmen repeatedly lied—as luxury or even remotely midrange.
The government’s aim in exposing the donations was to make the bishops look like crooks, the Catholic Church like a den of thieves, and Aquino like Jesus driving the moneychangers from the Temple.
huh? when, then, is the crucifixion? too bad the virgin mother went ahead (aka tita cory; allusion for purposes of teddy boy's article only, with apologies).
in fairness to p-noy, his surprise at what, if anything, has he got to do with this revelation of a pcso "scandal" (as quoted in another thread somewhere here in tb), is worth second thoughts. but then, well... as they say, leadership responsibility counts.
But the Aquino administration, though its credibility is now shattered, did succeed in arousing Catholic contempt for the Catholic Church, especially among its stoutest defenders.
i may hazard to guess that not all is lost. at least, there are defenders who will defend the church to the death, even in tb.
All right-thinking and right-feeling Catholics now despise the Church for allowing our religion to be insulted, traduced, shamed and dragged in the mud with no more resistance than a Jew in a ghetto in a pogrom. Christ counseled humility but not shame; forgiveness but not submission.
The history of the Catholic Church is one of proud assertion and militancy born of the conviction of its infallibility. The timidity of the Filipino Catholic Church strongly suggests that its bishops no longer believe in the truth of the Church or in its imperishability despite Christ’s promise that he had built her on unyielding rock and not on the rolling pebbles of public opinion.
this, too, shall pass.
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