Cathy Quiogue

Posted on 22. Oct, 2009 by Cathy Quiogue in Oplan Pepe

Hello!

I know I am in the minority here but I feel the need to stand up for my faith, too. Hope you have room for dissenting views as well.

1. I have grown to love and appreciate the Catholic faith even more now that I am an adult. The more I learn about its history and its tenets, the more I treasure my faith.

2. Priests are only men, human beings, so they can make mistakes. I have been sickened by the scandal of the pedophile priests especially in the US but they are distinct from the faith itself. Jesus Christ is the eternal High Priest and Mediator between God and Man and will remain the model of the priest.

I do not and will never based my faith on the actions of the priests alone.

3. As I have said, the Church is not meddling in state affairs when it speaks out against the RH bill because this concerns a moral decision. It would be highly remiss of her to be silent when she should be helping her flock in forming good consciences to help them make good decisions.

Should the Church be silent when the government steals from the public? Just as she can’t be silent in the moral aspects of political life, she can’t also be silent in matters where conscience and morality matter.

4. History has kindly judged Cardinal Sin who needled and criticized the Marcos dictatorship constantly and he was instrumental in bringing us our freedom. Was he wrong to have “meddled” in our politics back then?

In fact, the media has criticized the CBCP for their silence on GMA’s corruption and has even gone as far as saying that the Church has lost her moral ascendancy because of her silence. So it seems a damn-if-you-do-and-damn-if-you-don’t proposition for the Church.

Many people are still looking to the Church for moral guidance, so it behooves her to do her duty by being faithful to her role and commission here on earth.

Thank you very much and I wish you all well.