Last night, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) met for 10 hours, and everybody is hoping that they will issue some kind of strong statement about the current political crisis. So it was a big letdown that the CBCP instead distanced themselves from calling the imposter president Gloria Arroyo to step down, and opting to just ask for the abolition of EO 464, which bars government officials to appear on Senate hearings without Malacanang's consent.
What?
Allow me to belt out my best impersonation of South Park's Eric Cartman in saying that the pastoral letter was "weak!" and "lame!"
Although I have wanted the Church to stay out of politics since EDSA 2, where they really screwed up, they really chose a bad time to clam up. As far as I know, it is already a moral issue when someone steals and lies about it. It becomes more so if the culprit is pretending to be the president of the country.
I can only remember what the Reverend said in the movie "The Patriot", "It is the shepherd's duty to tend to the flock, and at times, fight off the wolves." Our shepherds, save for some like Bishops Deogracias Iniguez, Oscar Cruz and Ted Bacani, have allowed the wolves to savage the flock.
God save the Philippines.
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