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