MALACAÑANG on Friday sought a truce with Catholic clergy after the President’s latest tirades against the Church, as bishops showed no signs of backing down from criticism of the government’s bloody crackdown on drugs.

Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella, a former evangelical preacher, said President Rodrigo Duterte was not “anti-Catholic” and was open to dialogue.

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