Desmond Tutu is a high ecclesiastical official in Africa. An activist priest, he is like the great Philippine Jaime Cardinal Sin who minced no word against the excessess of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
What now is the role of the church in the scheme of things in the Philippines where no less than senators, congressmen, high government officials and even Vice-President Jejomar Binay are accused of a plethora of wrong doings, mostly involving money?
Cardinal Tagle has spoken against lawmakers for their misused of the funds that were supposed to have gone for the development of economically-deprived areas in the country. Needless to say, most of the money went into the pockets of officials of fake NGOs and senators, three of whom are now detained at a police facility.
WE have yet to hear officials of a church that owns the biggest arena in the world and notorious for their bloc vote that makes a difference in Philippine politics. Needless to say, members become high factotums of the bureaucracy once their candidates are elected to office. Are they are on the side of the oppressor of the poor millions and millions of Filipinos?
What can we say of politicians and their families who live in mansions, condominiums, gated subdivisions while Filipinos go hungry?
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