Churchman dares VACC to file charges

AN outspoken Catholic prelate on Monday dared the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) to file charges against bishops for violating the separation of Church and state, but said no amount of pressure would stop them from speaking out against the mounting death toll in the government’s drug war as well as moves to restore the death penalty.

“It’s their right if they want to do it and we respect that. If the case is accepted and we are put into trial, it’s not a problem. The CBCP (Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines) won’t prevent them from doing so. It’s their right,” Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz told The Manila Times.