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An insightful writing by Father Robert Reyes. Here's an excerpt. Padre Damaso of Noli and Fili fame is a black eye to the Philippine Church then as well as today. To be a priest and called Damaso is not so pleasant to say the very least. Carlos Celdran’s creative protest in front the altar of the Manila Cathedral against the Church’s position on the RH Bill has now earned him the verdict of guilty and a jail sentence of more than a year. I will not go into either the merits of the case or prolong the discussion on the RH Bill, I wish to go through the multi-tiered pain represented by the name Damaso. Is Carlos Celdran in pain? Yes, but not in the way that others may understand. I know him and he is a friend. He is a bona-fide citizen of the Republic of the Philippines. We have shared much about the excesses of the Catholic Church long before he ever thought of his “Damaso act” in the Manila Cathedral. Carlos’ pain is that of a Catholic who ask questions and seeks ans...

Tito Sotto does it again!

From Philstar.com MANILA, Philippines - The fight against the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill is the biggest challenge the Catholic Church is facing this Christmas season, an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said yesterday. Batangas Archbishop Ramon Arguelles yesterday said that while a 20-year-old gunman killed 20 children in the US, President Aquino would be killing millions of children with a stroke of a pen if he signs the RH bill into law. “Our President intends to kill 20 million children with a fountain pen…to sign the RH bill into law,” he said. He said that if this happens, the womb of the mother would no longer be the safest place. “The RH bill is against life (and) so much young blood (would be) shed. May our leaders not give the Divine Child the same Herodian gift of 2,000 years ago: death of the innocents,” said the Batangas prelate. What an asshole. Full story here .

After 14 years, the RH Bill has finally passed the second reading. Here are the top 10 reason for those congressmen who voted "no" to the bill. Credit goes to John Dy . Here's a note on the photo above. The ranking is subjective of course. So feel free to rank them yourselves. Let's see who will emerge number 1. :D CLARIFICATION: #9-10 is not a direct quote. My mistake for putting the quotation marks. The "and you know the rest" is added by me because he recited the entire prayer and I couldn't put the whole thing in the space. Here's another photo by John Dy on the Senators who are opposed to the RH Bill.

From the Inquirer . MANILA, Philippines—After fourteen years of being stuck in Congress, legislators finally put to a historic vote and passed the Reproductive Health Bill before dawn Thursday. With 113 votes on affirmative, 104 negative and three abstention, the RH Bill was approved on second reading, the most critical voting period for a legislation. The lawmakers went on a lengthy nominal voting, in which each lawmaker had three minutes each to explain his or her vote, after doubts were expressed about the voice vote earlier done on the bill. The tally of the votes was announced at about 2 a.m. Thursday. The reproductive health bill gives the national government the mandate to make reproductive health services accessible to poor families through information and education and the provision of free contraceptives. Unlike his earlier statement that the closing of the amendment period would be initiated by the opposition, House majority leader Neptali Gonzales II moved to term...

Saw this editorial from UST's school newspaper The Varsitarian . It has created a lot of controversy when the writer or writers called the Ateneo and De La Salle professors “intellectual pretenders and interlopers" when they stood for the RH Bill. It was quite brave of the professors to stand for what they believe in considering they are working for a religious school who are most likely . But was The Varsitarian correct to label these professors as such? The Varsitarian in the editorial states that "Professors who are affiliated with UST must respect the stand of the University against the RH bill as they are part of an institution which is fundamentally bound with Catholic faith and teachings. If UST professors don’t agree with the stand of the CBCP, then they have a problem. The bishops are the successors of the Christ’s apostles and possess the Magisterium, the teaching authority of the Church." I don't see why just because you work for a certain compan...

The battle for the RH Bill in the Philippines is getting stupid. This is one of the many tarpaulins that were attached to the footbridge at EDSA Shrine. Some people are making a parody about the stupid arguments against the RH Bill by making even more stupider arguments. :)

From the Inquirer . It’s now open war. Members of the influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Tuesday denounced President Benigno Aquino’s decision to push for the passage of the reproductive health (RH) bill during his State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Monday. Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles said the President’s open endorsement of the bill during his Sona was a declaration of “open war” against the Catholic Church. “Aquino declared an open war, a head-on collision against us and against the Catholic Church. So terrible, so blatantly Aquino missed the point,” Arguelles said in an interview. “We in the prolife movements are so disgusted with these vigorous pronouncements in support of responsible parenthood,” he added. Arguelles dismissed the President’s contention that slowing down the country’s population growth would benefit the nation. In contrast, the prelate said, the country’s booming population would drive its economy. Real face ...

The Philippines has the highest number of teenage mothers in South East Asia. The country's population continues to grow by two million people every year, with the number of teenage mothers rising by 70 per cent in 10 years. Although sex education is controversial in the mostly Roman Catholic country, the 200,000 teen pregnancies each year is fuelling calls to educate young women about birth control. Al Jazeera's Marga Ortigas reports from Manila. Here's the list from Pro RH Bill on Facebook.

The Reproductive Health (RH) Bill is the biggest issue in the Philippines today. A show called RH Bill: The Grand Debate aired on GMA News on May 22, 2011 with lawmakers, women and church officials airing their side on the issue. Here's a compilation of the videos I found online. Which side do you support and why?

The Philippine Catholic Church leaders has called on their members to boycott tax payment as a form of protest against the RH Bill. The Citizens Alliance for the Protection of Human Life has threatened to mount civil disobedience by not paying their taxes if the reproductive health bill is enacted into law. Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said that "protesters going on civil disobedience by refusing to pay taxes must be prepared to end up in the slammer." President Aquino warned this was seditious. Catholic bishops said they would rather risk jail time than drop their opposition to the measure. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it that the church doesn't pay any taxes? I don't know if priests pay taxes, but if they don't, how can they call on their followers to break the law and risk going to jail when they in turn risk nothing? That's quite unfair isn't it? I understand the Catholic Church's need to defend their stance on the RH Bil...

This is a very interesting article I've came upon about the RH Bill from Asian Correspondent . It basically says that the RH Bill, if unresolved will favor the critics. It's a good read. Here's the link .

The fight regarding the RH Bill is heating up specially during the Holy Week. With President Aquino's support of the RH Bill. Several Catholic priest have floated the idea of excommunicating the President. In an article in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz and Fr. Jerry Oblepias, the diocesan director of the Family Life Ministry in Laguna, both questioned the quality of Mr. Aquino’s Catholicism for supporting the controversial reproductive health bill. Oblepias in particular said Mr. Aquino was a “bad Catholic” with a “conscience that is not well-formed.” Cruz called the President “anti-Christian” for saying that he was prepared to be expelled from the Church if that is what supporting the reproductive health bill would entail. He said that, "There are 2 ways for someone to be excommunicated. Abortion or harming the pope. But just in case the President signs the bill into law…he will not be excommunicated. Unless, if the church proves that...

Leaders and experts from different fields of practice joined together to speak in support of the Reproductive Health Bill/s (which was then Senate Bill 3122 and House Bill 5043). What are your views on the RH Bill?

Since the biggest issue in the Philippines right now is the Reproductive Health Bill and the threat of President Noynoy Aquino being excommunicated by the church. I think this video is explains pretty well the state of the nation in regards to its population.