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This blog site, A Priest's Stuff , is about a young Filipino Dominican Roman Catholic priest's,Rev.Fr. Luigi Rivera, OP, journey in life; the stuff he needs and uses for liturgical, para-liturgical and personal endeavors; the challenges he faces; the adventures he has undergone; his opinions on certain issues; anecdotes; and some other cool stuff that might be unconventional for a priest yet beneficial for his life and ministry.

MANILA, Dec. 5, 2011—A former lawmaker appealed to Filipinos to live the true spirit of patriotism by upholding the rights of the family and the country and rejecting the foreign-backed reproductive (RH) bill that has been dividing the nation. “[The RH bill] will mean the total surrender of our national sovereignty, for it is not of Filipino origin. Nor is it meant to strengthen or enrich the culture, character and conscience of the Filipinos. It is dictated by foreign population controllers using so many of our unfortunate countrymen as proxies and cats’ paws,” former Senator Francisco “Kit” Tatad stated during a Cebu pro-life conference in November. In a separate interview, Atty. Jo Aurea Imbong, Executive Secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Legal Office reiterated the foreign origins of the P13.7 billion-legislative measure that mandates taxpayer-funded, government-promoted procurement and distribution of birth control supplies, and provision of s...