Many top-ranking Filipinos sharply critical of
the Arroyo administration told The Manila Times they respect the
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines for upholding
Church doctrine in its pastoral statements issued in response to the
political crisis engulfing the nation.
These Filipinos appreciate the CBCP’s
restraint in not calling for the resignation or ouster of President
Gloria Arroyo unlike her other foes who have spoken and written
against the Catholic Episcopal conference for not joining in their
anti-Arroyo struggle.
THE Church is the assembly of the people of God,
incorporated into Christ through baptism. Both visible and
spiritual, human and divine, it subsists in the Catholic Church as a
society structured with hierarchical organs, and composed of the
clergy, the laity, and the religious.
Beloved People of God: Greetings in the peace of the Lord!
Today in the midst of restlessness and
confusion, we come to you as pastors, for that is our precise role.
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