NO REDEMPTION?

To gain their support, she gave sleek cars like Mitsubishi Pajeros to Roman Catholic bishops last year using Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office money for the poor?
No redemption for the Little Woman, the personification of evil (Romulo Neri's term), even if she danced with the supposed savers of souls, now unmasked as bribe takers and shameless solicitors like the Mindanao bishop who asked for an expensive car?

Mi amigo Pedro, the government under the watch of the emperadora has been described as the most corrupt in the country's history. As bad as Ferdinand Marcos, who during the martial law years, had the perceived enemies of the state either killed or "made to disappear" in lonely or mass graves?

Where is Jonas Burgos, the activist son of the Ilocano journalist Jose? Now six feet below the ground or just "disappeared" like the "desaparecidos" of Argentina. In a press conference, according to a leader of the military junta that brutally ruled that country, the desaparecidos were"neither dead nor alive; they disappeared." Actually, they--left-wing activists and political dissidents-- were kidnapped, drugged and dropped, still alive, out of aircrafts.

Or was Jonas killed by his military captors, his body put in a container that was cemented and then dropped into the sea like what some dirty Amianan politicians do to their political opponents?

KINDRED SOUL?

After falling prey to capitalist economics by selling ecclesiastical property, the High Priest of the Diocese of Laoag City was promoted (Utlegged, according to Herdy La. Yumul, one of the country's top 5 bloggers) by the Vatican to archbishop, succeeding the respected Diosdado Talamayan of the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao.

The Laoag City Diocese under the watch of Apo Sergio conducted a raffle draw the first prize of which, a Honda Civic, was won, of all people, by our kamannurat friend Fr. Danilo Laeda, (still the parish priest of San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte?) whom he earlier appointed as vicar general.

What happened, Apo Sergio?


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