Social Justice

"Damaso!" Carlos shouted. "Damaso!" critics of the CBCP echoed. Retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz waited for Filipino Catholics to reply in their defense....

In debates and discussions contenders often cite authority to support their assertions. In some cases citing authority is the strongest strategy while in others it is the weakest.

"We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God..."

“… we Catholics are also against fideism.”

When citizens and politicians start publicly opposing the Church on an issue as serious to the Catholic doctrine as contraception, one cannot help but imagine that the Age of Reason is finally coming to our country.

On September 30, 2010, late in the afternoon, Carlos Celdran did what most of us could only hope to achieve. He a gave voice to the growing number of secularists in the country, a voice to those who are sick of the undue influence the Catholic Church holds over society.

After emotions have sizzled down a bit from all the excitement about excommunication and Damaso, one sobers up to the proposed budget for family planning: P280 million for pills, P100 million for injectibles, and P8 million for condom for a total of P400 million.

Here in the Philippines, the Catholic Church considers civil disobedience an option in its conflict with the government on the use...

If the Catholic Church is indeed the sole keeper of the truth as it pertains to the mystery of the supernatural, though I contend that they are not, their pronouncements reflect the desires of the creator of the universe himself. From this, we must understand that Catholics are simply not allowed the freedom to pick and choose which of God's commandments to follow.