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Indeed. I guess it goes in line with what they say, nothing is ever good enough / or bad enough for certain individuals.
Bah, the ludicrous notion that we are Judging Celdran. Celdran was already Judged. Judged by his violation of A Philippine Law.
And when in the Republic of the Philippines, all people (Filipino citizens, foreigners alike) must bow before the Law of the Land.
Just as how American Law requires Citizens and foreign visitors to respect and adhere to the Law of the land.

The issue here, which is rather interesting, is not that Celdran's constitutional right were violated, Nay!
This is the beauty of how Constitutional Rights apply only to a certain degree--until the one expressing violates the rights of others.

Celdran disagreed with The Catholic Church's stance on the RH Bill. Fine. Join the rest.
However, the way he carried his opposition to Church stance is what found him--in Jail.
By marching inside a Church service, when hundreds of faithful are observing mass, in order just to make a political point, that itself is already deemed a publicity stunt. I dare say this because it is. The man came into church dressed up as Jose Rizal yelling 'DAMASO' (a controversial Catholic priest in Jose Rizal's work) to attract attention and even when he was peacfully escorted out, was shouting vulgarities at the faithful.
This is already deemed as verbal harassment, to the parishoners present, to the priests.

Had he done this in a Protestant Church, Mormon Temple, Muslim Mosque, Jewish Temple, he would have been arrested as well.

His actions, the way he carried out his actions, is what is being talked about. Not his political agenda.





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ang galing mo sir,,,tama yon,,,

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Mao jud ,mao bitaw  nga dili ko sigi ug paoyon sa ubang mga thread diri (correct ka sir)(tama ka mam)...a-s su-k-r...

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About Celdran's case;

"kurz und bündig",,,! > briefly and succinctly  

Dli ang RH Bill thingy (issue) ang makapaprizo nya..kon dli ang pag surambaw nya sa Holy Mass..!
  ka sayning(sayon) ra ana ah..nganong lisodlisoron man jud atong pahak ba? whop§

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Hindi ako galing, kapatid, ang galing ay ang Dios. The verse that you provided is quite contemplative.

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mas bati kung dili ka motingog ug dili nimo e-exercise ang imong right to speak. mas mograbe unya ang oppression kung mag sige nalang ka ug tando. dili man sad ko magkinahanglan mangombinser ug tawo kay kung ang tawo nakasabot ug ganahan sa usa ka butang dili na kinahanglan kombinseron. and again, it's not about religion. it's about opinion and idealism.

kung naay right ang mga lider modektar naa sad right ang mga member to reason out to their express opinions.

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Forget Damaso,remember Sister Christine


Forget Damaso, remember Sister Christine
By Benjamin Pimentel
INQUIRER.net First Posted 10:58:00 10/10/2010 Filed Under: Religion & Belief, Churches (organisations), Health, Women, Human Rights, Americas - Canada

 

CALIFORNIA, United States—She was the nun the Catholic church threatened to excommunicate.

Too bad Sister Christine Tan is no longer around to join the latest fight against the Catholic hierarchy. She would have been a valuable ally in P-Noy’s bold decision to push a key social policy, even if it meant taking on the Catholic powers-that-be.

For she herself once faced the risk of being subjected to perhaps the most painful punishment a nun or priest could imagine. The reason: She dared oppose the brutal regime of Ferdinand Marcos.

“Once during martial law, when we major superiors dared oppose the dictatorship, I was summoned to Rome,” Sister Christine recalled in an essay she wrote before her death in 2003. “I remember the 14 doors that I passed through, only to be told by a cardinal that if I did not cooperate with our regime, I would be excommunicated.”

She was unfazed by the threat.

“I sighed," she wrote, "not because of the senseless threat, but because of the thousands of pesos spent on fare, when this could easily have been done with a single stamp."

Now that's one gutsy religious leader worthy of respect.

As I noted in my last column, the recent Catholic hierarchy tantrum over birth control would make any Filipino lose faith in the church.

But Sister Christine’s story highlights an important point: The Catholic church is not monolithic.

There are, in fact, two churches. Sister Christine represented, as one Facebook friend put it, “the living progressive church.”

And she had more than her share of battles with the other church. The institution that is so adamantly opposed to contraceptives, believes women should stay home and be subservient to their husbands, hates gays and lesbians, tells poor people to bear suffering, and tells everyone to not challenge authority with whom it is aligned—even if it’s a greedy bully like Marcos.

“As to the institutional church, that monolithic fort of mitered men, how I suffered from their arrogance,” Sister Christine wrote.

“How healthy it was to be misunderstood, especially by those who mattered,” she also said. “How faith-filled it was to be the enemy of the dictator, the target of rightists. How liberating it was not to be swept by the tide.”

A powerful insight from someone who spent most of her life swimming against the tide.

Remembering people like Sister Christine is partly why I had mixed thoughts about Carlos Celdran's famous Damaso protest.

The creative disruption of a Catholic ceremony certainly gave the Catholic establishment a much-needed jolt—but it was also the equivalent of a shotgun blast. It may have alienated too many people--including some members of the clergy who are probably shaking their heads in private over their superiors’ Medieval cluelessness, priests and nuns who may also be inspired by Sister Christine’s life of commitment to social justice.

For hers was an amazing story of commitment and spiritual enlightenment.

It’s about a woman from a relatively affluent family who decided to become a nun, but later found the cloistered life limiting. She then discovered her calling: to be a warrior for the poor with whom she lived and struggled against the forces of injustice and greed in Philippine society.

Her battles covered a broad range of issues, from human rights and workers rights, to Philippine democracy and sovereignty.

And she never stopped fighting.

When I interviewed her in 1996 in her home in Leveriza, the urban poor community in Manila, Sister Christine was critical of how, despite the fall of the dictator, there was still so much inequality in the country under Corazon Aquino and Fidel Ramos.

“There are more Marcoses today—before, there was only one,” she told me. “That's what's wrecking our country—the politicians. There is a new elite far richer than 10 years ago and far more powerful.”

As the showdown with the Catholic hierarchy continues, it’s important to remember that, yes, Padre Damaso is still out there. (I bet there are even a few Padre Salvis around, preying not just on the meek Maria Claras, but also on the helpless Crispins and Basilios.)

But there are also other church figures that could inspire and move us.

And they’re not fictional characters from a classic novel. They’re real people whose remarkable life stories are an important part of the Filipino epic.

In her essay, Sister Christine also said, “As for adulation, positions, praises poured on me—they are just bubbles that disappear with a sneeze.”

It’s the one thing she says in that beautiful essay that I truly hope proves to be wrong.

For these days, we should recall and celebrate all that adulation and praise for a nun who personified the compassionate and socially relevant church that every Filipino would be proud to embrace.



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