EDSA II was a mistake. What guarantee there is that Puno or anyone else will not be like or worse than this one?
Correcting it with another will not make it right anytime. Even if they succeed in their plans, there is an election in 2010. Patience would be a virtue instead of haste.
Is governance now part of the bishops’ temporal responsibility? Look at the wholesale moral decay we are in now — is morality not their major temporal responsibility? They failed miserably yet they want to take more responsibility. Their effort will be more productive if they work hard at uplifting the moral standards of those who are coming after this morally bankrupt generation.
Unless they are planning to run for public office, grandstanding is not the way to go but to lead in humility as exemplified by Jesus.
– Alfredo Quedi, Khamis Mushayt, Saudi Arabia (via e-mail)
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October 30th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Alfredo Quedi,
They are not grandstanding; they are simply doing what should have been done a long time ago. Call for the current corrupt and abusive leadership to resign and request the Justices serve as our nation’s caretakers while a Snap election is being organized.
What some bishops are doing is the first step toward arresting moral decay in society. Removing the innermost core of those who perpetuate this moral decay who are also currently in the topmost position is the first step. From there an aggressive anti-corruption campaign must be done then we can work for further steps in reinstalling our lost morality. The next set of leaders WILL be made accountable to the people whether they like it our not. The monitoring must not stop even if a new leadership be elected.
THAT is the true essence of service to God and the people, not simply meekly taking in the corruption and accepting evils of society in the guise of false “humility”. The decent citizens would not bear the cross caused by the corrupt, power hungry and abusive this time. Instead the corrupt shall be the ones who must be punished according to the crimes they have committed.
As you claim the example of Jesus, they are now whipping the corrupt money changers in the temple intent on driving them away. It has been a long time in the coming, it’s about time the CBCP move rather than lounge around in church divorced from the moral havoc that this immoral leadership have wrought … and I am glad that AT LEAST some of them are finally stirring from their long slumber.
October 29th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Why not a temporary government? At least it would end the problems about GMA’s legitimity. Only, why Puno? Much better if the boss is somebody that is not affiliated with the present administration, and not a military or police rank.
Probably it should include the leaders of political parties, or their vices if they are part of the Arroyo administration.Church leaders, economic and law specialists from big universities,as an example. Police and military has to be left out since they have to be impartiel and non-political.
They shoul, within a limited time, a proposal of economic rreforms, security and how to ensure elections without bribery, cheating, vote buying with drastical punishment of violators. Then Puno can run for president if he wants, GMA, Ramos, Erap, Cory etc., so the people really can decide.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
they are the same bishops that are calling for the resignation of gma, ala na bang dadagdag………
we could have been in a worst situation if not for edsa 2………
guingona should give way for more charismatic opposition figure, pag siya ang nakikita kong nagfofront, nawawalan ako ng gana………
unang una siyang balimbing, walang palabra de honor, remember the ‘i accuse’ speech………
sorry but a tansition junta is unconstitutional……..
October 29th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
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October 29th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Yes, these Catholic prelates should not be meddling with politics because that is none of their business. They have been a failure as far as their perceived responsibility is concerned, that is the morality of the people. If only my fellow kababayan would open their Bibles and read it and live its precious teachings, then they would not have fallen to the whims of these false teachers.