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Sunday, August 30, 2009

 

SPECIAL REPORT: RELIGION AND POLITICS  

Surge in ‘religious politics’ could lead to reforms

 
By Rene Q. Bas, Editor in chief
 
Why is there a surge of “religious politicians”?

Do the appearance and political prominence of Gov. Ed Panlilio of Pampanga, a Catholic priest suspended from exercising his priestly faculties (powers and functions)—and Protestant Brother Eddie Villanueva, leader of the Jesus Is Lord Movement, and Brother Mike Velarde of the El Shaddai Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement—improve Philippine politics and promote good governance?

Not only these leaders of religious groups have made the issue of “religion and politics” come to the fore.

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Election fever is here again, and an old question once more comes to the fore: the involvement of the Church in politics. Granting that the hierarchy itself should not be involved in partisan politics, the following questions have been...

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In the earliest governments of mankind, theocracy—that form or system of government in which God, or a god or deity, is recognized as the state’s supreme civil ruler, represented by the highest priest—was commonplace.

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The latest pastoral letter signed on July 12 by Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) President Archbishop Angel Lagdameo once again calls on the Catholic laity to make a difference, applying the values and tenets of their...

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