p2 RH BILL VS. CHURCH - BISHOP DEOGRACIAS INIGUEZ

Bishops fulminate excommunication and anathema against individuals and government officials, seemingly to preserve and defend the spiritual prerogatives of the Church.. when in reality they did so exclusively to preserve, defend or expand their financial or even commercial benefits of a Church determined to retain and add more wealth it already enjoyed by rapidly increasing the numbers of their Catholic members. jambroco 2 days ago Fr.Bernas reminded his fellow Catholics that they are in no position to impose their beliefs on other Filipinos,which even a papal diktat emphasizes. The official Catholic teaching is that artificial contraception is immoral.Other religions believe in good faith otherwise.Seeking to impose Catholic belief&practices on non-Catholics &others violates freedom of religion.Freedom of religion does not merely mean freedom to believe.It also means freedom to act or not to act according to one's belief jeansforjustice 4 days ago The Jesuit Fr. Joaquin Bernas recently posted on his blog that the Ayala Alabang ordinance looks like "an attempt by a sector of the Catholic Church to instrumentalize the power of the state to impose Catholic belief on all others." Bernas, the much respected dean emeritus of the Ateneo law school, said: "This is something which gives the Catholic religion a bad name. It is reminiscent of the Inquisition." jeansforjustice 4 days ago Ateneo Professors' report: "We therefore ask those who denounce the RH Bill as "pro-abortion ...