This weekend’s plenary conference of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines will have much to ponder and pronounce upon. Several national developments gravely affect the lives of Filipinos, especially the poor, and raise issues of truth, justice and integrity.

Most prominent among them is, of course, the mammoth anomalies in state spending, with plunder charges against three opposition senators implicated in the pork barrel scandal, and the Supreme Court decision declaring the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) unconstitutional.

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