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The Catholic Church has lost the war on Reproductive Health (RH) Law today in the Philippine situation. The Supreme Court  had ruled out that the RH law is constitutional except some provisions that were struck out. Most of the provisions were struck down  concern more on religious liberty rather than on the protection of life nor on the artificial birth control. Personally, I am not surprise of the outcome of the decision due to the fact that we have have really failed to educate the faithful concerning this matter. We could no longer do anything about the past, we have to open a new chapter in our quest of protecting life and to create a more effective program for family and life ministry. What is more important is that we fight a legal battle on this issue, though we may not won this court battle, it has teached us a tremendous lesson that we have to learn also how the world around us operates so that we can addressed the matter in the language that wo...

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(Babasahin sa lahat ng Misa sa mga parokya na nasasakupan ng Diyosesis ng San Pablo) An Open Letter to the Congressmen of the Four Districts of Laguna Mga minamahal Naming Kongresista ng Laguna, Ang pagpapasa ng House Bill 4244  -- o ng  Reproductive Health Bill  -- sa ikalawang pagbasa nito noong ika-13 ng Disyembre ay nakapanlulumo at nakalulungkot. Subalit hindi ito nakapanghihina sa determinasyon ng Simbahan na patuloy na ipaglaban ang buhay at karapatan ng tao. "Nagliliwanag sa kadiliman ang ilaw, at hindi ito kailanman nagapi ng kadiliman" (Juan 1:5). Sa usaping ito, isinaalang-alang sana ang katotohanan na " ang ikabubuti ng lahat ng lipunan ay hindi isang layunin sa kanyang sarili; ito ay may halaga lamang kung ito ay may kinalaman sa pagkakamit ng pinaka-huling layunin (ultimate ends) ng tao at ng pangkalahatang ikabubuti ng buong sangnilikha"  ( Compendium of the Social Doctrines of the Church , 170). Ang posibilidad ng pagbubuo at pagkakaroon ...

Pinangalingan ng Larawan Hayaan ninyo na ilagay ko rito ang paninindigan ng Pro-Life Philippines sangayon sa bagong pahayag o bersyon ng Reproductive Health Bill. Patuloy pa rin nating tinututulan ang nabanngit na panukalang batas. Pro Life Philippines Foundation, Inc.Position Paper on the New RH Bill VersionFiled at the House of...

( Isang muling pagpapaskil ng pormal na pahayag ng Kapulungan ng mga Katolikong  mga Obispo sa Pilipinas (KKOP)o Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines ( CBCP).)  Statement on RH Bill Every birth is a gift from God; every new life, a blessing, every birth a cause for rejoicing and praising God who create new life only out of love. Our country’s positive birth rate and a population composed of mostly young people are the main players that fuel the economy. A fact that even the government itself acknowledges as it is determined to feed, educate and keep the young people healthy. And rightly so, for even our Constitution acknowledges that human resource is a primary source of social and economic force. Earlier this year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas reported that the hard-earned salaries of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) that were sent to their families for the first 11 months last year amounted to $18.3 billion, which is 7.3 percent ...

Get your own Poll! Ang usapin ng pagpapasa ng reproductive health bill ay lalong naging mainit dahil sa matinding pagnanais ng gobyerno na pigilan ang pagdami ng mga Filipino. Ang Simbahang Katoliko ay di pumapayag sa pamamaraan na pinipili ng Gobyerno. Hayaan ninyo na sa pamamaggitan ng pagboto sa tanong na ito ay maaring makita ang pulso ng sambayanang Kristiyano.

MANILA, March 8, 2012—Amid calls for debates after the Manila Archbishop opened renewed opportunities for dialogue on the reproductive health (RH) bill, the newly appointed leader of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) reiterated that the stand of the Church remains the same. “If the RH proponents expect that we in the new administration, because we are new, would be amenable to changes, it is a no,” CBCP President Archbishop Jose Palma said. “Their presumption may be like if there is a new admin they think there can be a new policy, have new doctrines and approaches. This is not the case in the Church. We don’t expect the new members of any council to be changing doctrines.” The prelate also pointed out the need for more plenary debates amid calls of RH proponents to put the bill to a vote. “Kapag humaba debate mas maraming natututunan at nakikita ang katotohanan about the Church doctrine, kaya ‘yung iba natatakot na kapag humaba ang debate,” Palma explaine...

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...