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Meaning beyond mystery 'Socdem' In a book launched recently at the Ateneo de Manila University is a black-and-white photograph that brings me back to another time of my life. It is of veteran peace activist Edmundo Garcia, then a Jesuit scholastic and leader of a newly formed movement called “Lakasdiwa,” speaking before a huge crowd in Plaza Miranda demanding justice for the arson victims of Bantay, Ilocos Sur. The date was July 30, 1970. |
Becoming a Church of the Poor: Philippine Catholicism After the Second Plenary Council
The volume also commemorates the first death anniversary of the late Bishop Francisco F. Claver, SJ, one of the architects of PCP II and a cofounder of JJCICSI, who died on 1 July 2010. Copyright 2011. 6x9 inches. 128 pages. Php 300. Exclusively distributed by the Ateneo de Manila University Press, Bellarmine Hall, ADMU Campus, Katipunan Ave., Loyola Heights, Quezon City. |
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| Talking Points for Dialogue on the Reproductive Health Bill The polarization of Philippine society over the Reproductive Health Bill has been a source of discouragement and discontent among Filipinos. It is unfortunate that the debate has focused only on whether the Bill should be passed or rejected in its present form. Either option would not be good for Filipinos. The Church sees in the proposed Bill serious flaws that can lead to violations of human rights and freedom of conscience. It would not be acceptable to pass it in its present form. Total rejection of the Bill, however, will not change the status quo of high rates of infant mortality, maternal deaths, and abortions. It is a moral imperative that such dehumanizing conditions should not be allowed to continue. What is needed is a third option: critical and constructive engagement. By working together to amend the objectionable provisions of the Bill and retain the provisions that actually improve the lives of Filipinos, both the proponents and opponents of the Bill can make a contribution to protection of the dignity of Filipinos and an improvement of their quality of life. |
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Produced
by the JJCICSI staff, Becoming a Church of the Poor is a collection
of essays which provide a glimpse into how the Philippine Catholic Church
has sought to fulfill the goals she set for herself in the Second Plenary
Council of the Philippines ( PCP II), convened twenty years ago in 1991.
Among the issues tackled in the book deal with family and life, agrarian
reform, environment, and electoral politics.