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Return the 'Pajeros' to P-Noy, CBCP tells bishops
By Janice M. Cave

An official of the influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines has suggested that the sports utility vehicles donated by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) to several bishops should be returned.

“Dapat lang na mag-cooperate ang mga kapwa obispo natin na sangkot sa usapin na 'yan. At dapat ring ibalik o isauli na yang mga sasakyan na yan sa pamahalaan para matapos na ang usapin. Pag hindi kasi, lalala lang yan at kung anu pang mga haka-haka ang lalabas dyan [Bishops involved should cooperate. They should return the vehicles to government to put a stop to this controversy. If not, it will aggravate and speculations will arise]," Caloocan Bishop Deogracias Iniguez said in a radio interview over Church-run Radyo Veritas.

Iniguez, CBCP-Episcopal Commission on public affairs chairman, said the issue is getting worse and is being used by politicians for grandstanding.

Sorsogon Bishop Arturo Bastes agreed with Iniguez's proposal to return the SUVs to the government so that the Catholic Church will no longer be dragged into the PCSO controversy.

"That’s a good suggestion. Ibalik lahat ng mga sasakyan na 'yan kay PNoy. As I have said, these investigations are overkill... Bago pa man nagkaroon ng Senate inquiry, sabi ko kakaladkarin talaga pangalan ng mga bishops dyan. Kahit hindi naman ginamit na personal ng mga bishops ang sasakyan palalabasin nila na personal na ginamit [They should return the vehicles to PNoy... Even before the Senate inquiry, I said they will drag the bishops into the controversy, even if they did not use the vehicles for personal purposes, they will still insist they did]," he said.

"Kung mayroon dapat imbestigahan, ito ang mga tiwaling pulitiko na nagnanakaw sa kaban ng bayan. Huwag nilang pag-initan ang mga obispo na tunay at totoong naglilingkod sa mga mahihirap [If there's someone who should be investigated, it should be the corrupt politicians and not the bishops who truly help the poor]," he added. (PNA)

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They are hunting down the RH Bill opponents.

This event shocked even me. Bisan unsaon naho ug huna huna ug rason nga puwede ikahatag sa mga comments sections sa mga news, wa jud koy mahuna hunaan. Hehehe. Ang nakaparat kay puro Catholic beneficiaries ray gipanganlan. Di ko motuo ug way laing relihiyon. Bawo ninjo.

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Pope hands off on bishops in PCSO controversy—Ambassador Tuason
990AM, INQUIRER.net
10:28 am | Friday, July 8th, 2011


MANILA, Philippines – Pope Benedict XVI is adopting a hands off policy on the controversy surrounding Filipino bishops accused of receiving SUVs and cash from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), Philippine Ambassador to the Holy See Mercedes Arrastia-Tuason told 990AM Friday.

“The Holy Father will not comment on something that is a domestic problem,” said Tuason from the Vatican in a phone interview with reporter Chona Yu.

Tuason added that there was still nothing definite in the investigation.

“When the CBCP [Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines] said that their conscience was clear, I believe that,” Tuason said.

The Senate blue ribbon committee has started its inquiry into allegations that bishops were given SUVs bought from funds of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO). The inquiry was prompted by a disclosure from the new PCSO management under Margarita Juico identifying six Catholic bishops and an organization that received SUVs and cash worth P8.3 million in the last three years of the Arroyo administration.

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that's why i'm interested in how this whole soap opera will pan out.  i hope it's just the lieutenants of the president and not he himself who's initiating all these witch hunts aimed at the previous administration.  how can this administration move on?  i've always been for p-noy and what he symbolizes; i hope that he won't disappoint. 

what should be questioned here is what funds were used and how legal was its use, not the recipients who had no control of the source of gifts.

kinsa may magbuot nako kun mangayo kog train ni barack obama bi?   

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mangita usa ko unsay iningles ug balsahan, fr chic, aron ko masabtan ni barry.

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Mao ni ang ihatag ni Bari... 


 

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About time. Morag na-traumatize baya tawon ang affected bishops ...

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Unta the CBCP will come up with a clearer policy on accepting and REQUESTING gifts and donations from private individuals specially government officials and offices. Aron di na mahitabo ning samang hitaboa.



Hahahahaha. Ako pud!

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Bitaw, no? Seems needful in hindsight, yes. Pero lisod i-anticipate ni nga sitwasyon.

As things stand, rightly or wrongly, things will never be the same again...

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