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MANILA, March 8, 2012— The P10 billion compensation that President Aquino’s family is allegedly demanding for the loss of the Hacienda Luisita is ‘totally unfair,’ a Catholic bishop said. Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo said owners of the vast sugar estate do not even have the right to just compensation because the land should have been distributed to the farmers years ago. He said that a different case should be applied to the Hacienda Luisita even if the Constitution mandates the payment of just compensation as a result of the recent Supreme Court order. “This is really an issue on social justice. This is not just an economic issue,” stressed Pabillo, chairman of the National Secretariat for Social Action of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines. In its Nov. 2011 ruling ordering the distribution of the property to the farmers, the SC assured the Hacienda Luisita Inc. of just compensation based on the land’s value in 1989 of P40,000. Just compensation fo...

Right after my 9:00 o'clock nuptial Mass, I headed towards Sta. Cruz, Laguna for the first Bishop-peasants' Forum. A forum handled by the catholic Social group for women, farmers, fishermen and laborer. Here are some of the exposition of the different groups. I was not been able to finish it because of other commitments: > Blogs commenting Fr. Jessie's post