Sabi rin raw ni GMA na sinabihan siya ni Pope na ayaw niyang makialam ang Simbahang Katoliko sa pulitika. Ito ang reaction ng PDI at MLQ3.
Bishop Cruz: Pope knows about Garci scandal
The Manila Standard Today OTOH banners: Pope inspires GMA on ChaCha
I love the Manila Standard Today.
Lito Banayo:
Hindi ba siya kiniki labutan sa ginagawa niya?" This was the rather nervous question, more a statement really, that a lady from Batangas phoned in. She was reacting to the latest "spins" from Doña Gloria about her 20-minute private audience with Pope Benedict XVI.
The Doña claims that she was "encouraged" by the Pope on her "charter-change initiatives". Thus will she stay on her course, undeterred, for the pontiff was "supportive" of her pro-poor policies. Watch out, you "bad" senators. When she comes back, she will damn you for stopping her "pro-poor" Kilos Asenso and Kalayaan Barangay slush funds. She will report to the Holy Father in Rome that you are obstructing her "pro-poor policies".
This space told the senators, four or five days before they rushed the abolition of the death penalty, that she just wanted to use the anti-kill bill as trophy for her papal visit. In fact, the following Monday, I personally told the Senate President that the Doña he has broken political fealty from, was just going to "gift" the Pope, along with King Juan Carlos, with the death penalty abolition. Deny her that trophy by delaying passage of the bill, since that was the last week of the session, I asked. After all, she would not execute any criminal in the meantime. Obviously however, the senators of the realm could not find it upon themselves to disappoint the bishops and the papal nuncio. And so the senators gave her license to use the living pope.
One recalls how last year she "used" a dead pope even as he was lying in state. She said it was John Paul II, whom she visited in the Vatican a day after she phoned in her resignation as a member of Erap’s cabinet, who had "encouraged" her to "bring morality back" into the country. She of course knew that the dead pontiff of saintly memory could not answer back.
Yeah, that was funny.
More: Arroyo wants Bishop Yniguez punished for filing an impeachment case against her. Hindi raw pwedeng sumali ang mga pari at obispo sa pulitika eh, sabi ng administration. More here.
Pero bakit okay lang sa kanya na makialam ang simbahan (led by Cardinal Sin) dati nung panahon ni erap, which led to Edsa Dos? Hindi ba katabi niya si Sin at ang mga ibang pari at mga bishops sa Edsa para itulak ang military-civilian coup kay Erap?
Ellen Tordesillas: Doing a spin on the Pope's words.
More reactions from Dean Bocobo, Neal Cruz and Quezon 3.
Sabi ni DJB:
Priests and bishops, like doctors lawyers, farmers, business men and other ordinary citizens are allowed to engage in as much partisan political activity as they want. It is Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, like Hilario Davide, and Chiefs of Staff of the AFP like General Angelo Reyes, that are absolutely barred by Code of Judicial Conduct and the Constitution, respectively from engaging in partisan political activity. Nograles' claim that this is the first time he has seen "partisan political activity" by the Catholic Church can only mean he was born blind.
Heh.
From the Tribune Editorial:
The problem with Gloria is that she usually goes overboard when she becomes exceptionally happy. During her all too fleeting call on Pope Benedict XVI, she said among other things that the chief prelate approved of her policies and the way she runs the government. For crying out loud. But she gave a big smile, because she knew she had scored, in the sense that the Pope approved of the abolition of the death penalty -- and knew too that she would be spinning that papal “approval.”
But what business would the Pope have in endorsing Gloria’s type of governance particularly amid reports of widespread murders of her critics, including priests?
She also intimated that the Pope supports her move for a parliamentary form of government for the country. Good grief! Why should the Pope care one way or the other whether the country has a parliamentary or presidential system? His Vatican state has neither. Besides why even delve into the politics of things?
Ah, but according to Gloria, with her wide smile, the Pope had made her into his instant messenger as she claimed Benedict told her he does not look kindly on the local bishops and the local church interfering in the affairs of state and Philippine politics.
What? He who she says supports her tough policies, her way of running the government, her push for the parliamentary shift of government — all of which are political issues — now tells her that he does not like the idea of bishops and priests meddling in state affairs and political issues?
It depends lang talaga kung kuya. Kung makakatulong kay Arroyo na makialam ang simbahan sa isyu pulitika, e di magandang bagay yan at dapat i-encourage. Kung kontra kay Arroyo yung kilos ng simbahan, bawal yan.
Kung kontra kay erap ang kilos ng simbahan, maganda yan. Kung kontra naman kay Arroyo, bawal yan.
From Ted Te:
We must not forget that it is this very same Gloria Arroyo who, when she was still Vice President, declared that John Paul II had confirmed that it was perfectly alright to go ahead with her destabilization attempts against Erap; we must not forget that it is this very same Gloria Arroyo who, upon visiting Benedict XVI, now intones through her mouthpiece Mr. Bunyi that the Pope has also given his go-signal for her government to continue doing what it is doing.
UPDATE: From the Tribune editorial:
But isn’t this so ridiculous a call from her, considering the indisputable fact that she, along the late Jaime Cardinal Sin and the Catholic bishops, with her military generals, the chief justice and his judicial clique, conspired to oust a legitimately elected President of the Republic through mob rule, discarding the constitutional processes and the rule of law?
What she, her bishops, the elite and the military generals did was certainly an unpardonable breach of the Constitution and if the religious flavor must be injected, that was a breach of Catholicism, on grounds that the voice of the people is the voice of God — a voice that they had thwarted, not once, but twice, through a naked power grab in 2001 and again, through massive poll cheating in 2004, which electoral fraud these bishops even blessed by claiming that while there was cheating, the vote still reflected the people’s will.
It is also to be recalled that in 2000, when an impeachment complaint was filed against then sitting President Joseph Estrada, this was signed by a priest, Robert Reyes, then the attack dog of Jaime Sin. And there is no denying that the bishops were behind her in a staged “people power” revolt, but there was no objection from Gloria and her coup plotters on such disgraceful behavior of the church leaders.
But now that a bishop files an impeachment complaint against her, she now wants his actions probed? Just who does she think she is? Hell, she is not even the legitimately elected President of the Republic!
I agree.
UPDATE: And wasn't Fr. Joe Dizon also one of the signatories on Erap's impeachment complaint back in 2000? Didn't hear much complaints about re "separation of church and state" from the pro-Arroyo's back then either.
Militant groups have condemned the Macapagal-Arroyo government’s granting of Estrada’s request to be allowed to travel abroad. “This is yet another proof of Arroyo’s treachery to the cause and ideals of People Power 2,” said Fr. Joe Dizon, spokesperson of Plunder Watch which filed the plunder case against the deposed president, in a statement to the media last week. “She has again abetted corruption by allowing Estrada to flee from justice.”
Fr. Dizon is one of the signatories to the impeachment case filed against Estrada in 2000. The impeachment trial was aborted through a maneuver by senator-judges partial to Estrada on Jan. 16, 2001, leading to the People Power 2 revolt that ousted him four days later.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment