Injustice and unkindness at the Sandiganbayan

This article is supposed to be about Vatican journalist John Allen Jr.’s talk about Pope Francis. But this writer feels obliged to defer the three-part column for another subject that should also concern godly readers: the Sandiganbayan’s unkind and unlawful treatment of former President Gloria Arroyo.

Last week the antigraft court denied her petition for a few day’s home stay for her April 5 birthday, despite physicians’ testimony that rest, comfort and time with family and friends away from detention would improve her deteriorating health. This is unjust, unkind and un-Christian.