February 16 - 28, 2019
PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY
Catholic Church to survive a
hundred Dutertes – bishops
President
Duterte
claimed
Catholicism would cease to exist in
25 years, but church leaders believe
otherwise.
Retired Novaliches Bishop Teodoro
Bacani said the Catholic Church will
even survive a hundred Dutertes.
“The Catholic Church will survive
a hundred Dutertes,” he said in an
interview.
Cubao Bishop Honesto Ongtioco
also contradicted the claim of
Duterte.
“Many people have said that
before and where are they now? Six
feet below the ground. Church has
existed more than 2,000 years,” he
said.
In a Facebook post, Kalookan
Bishop Pablo David also said the
same thing.
“A lot of people have said the same
thing many centuries ago. Some have
even tried to deliberately destroy the
Catholic Church. Well, it appears
that not even the sins and human
weaknesses of her own members
could destroy the Church, as long as
we have the humility to admit such
wrongdoings and do something to
correct them,” he said in a post.
Although there have been times
when the Church got diminished or
reduced to a minority, as is already
happening in some countries, David
said: “strangely, it is when she gets
marginalized, persecuted, or treated
like a minority, that the Church
becomes even more alive and
effective.
“It is then that she is able to work
like a mustard seed, or a little lamp
in the dark, or a pinch of salt in a pot
of stew, or a little leaven in a mass of
dough,” he said.
“She remains in existence, not
because of us, or perhaps even in
spite of us. Only the Holy Spirit keeps
the Church, the Body of Christ, alive;
I mean to say that in all humility,”
added David.
On Monday, Duterte said the
Catholic faith may disappear in 25
years amid allegations of sexual abuse
by some clergy.(L.A Aquino, mb.com.
ph)
Abuse summit follow-up to
include new child protection
law for Vatican
Vatican City- A Vatican spokesman
said Sunday that concrete follow-
up to this week’s abuse summit will
include a new law on child protection
for Vatican City State and a document
from Pope Francis.
At the conclusion of the Vatican’s
sex abuse and child protection summit
Feb. 24, conference moderator Fr.
Federico Lombardi, SJ, announced
that Pope Francis will soon issue a
motu proprio “on the protection of
minors and vulnerable persons.”
Vatican City State will also receive
its own new child protection law and
the Vicariate of Vatican City will receive
new child protection guidelines in the
coming weeks. The Congregation for
the Doctrine of the Faith will publish
a “vademecum,” or handbook, with
the tasks and obligations of bishops,
Lombardi said.
Archbishop Charles Scicluna,
adjunct secretary of the CDF and a
leading figure in the abuse conference,
said Feb. 24 that while changes in law
are good, the most important thing is
“a change of heart” and conversion,
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RELIGIOUS
“to be more like the Good Shepherd,
taking care of the little ones and the
most vulnerable.”
Another measure slated to take
place over the next months is the
creation of task forces specifically to
help local Churches in need of help to
solve problems and develop initiatives
in their bishops’ conferences and
dioceses.
At the final press conference of
the abuse summit, organizers re-
emphasized the plan for a follow-up
meeting to take place between summit
leaders and top people in the Roman
Curia first thing Monday morning.
Scicluna praised the four-day
meeting with heads of bishops’
conferences,
Eastern
Catholic
Churches, and religious communities,
saying that while the Church has
acknowledged for decades the
seriousness of the crime of abuse of
minors by clergy, this was the first
time he had seen an equally clear
acknowledgment of the gravity of
cover-up. (H. Brockhaus, CNA)
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