TY CBCP
Posted by amijares on June 2, 2006
The CBCP has made its voice! Let it be heard. We are grateful to Archbishop Lagdameo for one of his initial statements regarding the present state of affairs in this present government and exposing its untransparent initiative! Thank you for the enlightening and balanced assessment.
We join hands in expressing our uneasenes about the process by which people’s initiative is carried out. In our judgment and I think to any reasonable the Filipino this people’s initiative could very well be self-seeking . . . wanting to entrench those who intiate it in power. Together with the CBCP, “we might further ask the question of the source of funding for this entire operation.”
Let us continue to discern appropriate actions, decide and do it.
What seems to be tragically lacking in this government is “charitas” for its own people. It does not love its own constituents. What Benedict XVI wrote proves even forcefully more true in our time: “Love—caritas—will always prove necessary, even in the most just society. There is no ordering of the State so just that it can eliminate the need for a service of love. Whoever wants to eliminate love is preparing to eliminate man as such.” (Deus charitas est, n. 28)
“The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy . . . . We do not need a State which regulates and controls everything, but a State which, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, generously acknowledges and supports initiatives arising from the different social forces and combines spontaneity with closeness to those in need.”
We cannot now afford to leave our ears deaf to this urgent call!
More power to our Filipino people and let us be creative in not allowing those who are in power to continue to exploit our poor people by these dubious socalled “people’s initiative.”
