Church and State

The eventual battle of sons in the Philippine politics is seemingly a new generation of politics. The cry for moral revolution priced the political position of the speaker of the house. The Speaker's son's expose on the alleged NBN scam involving the First Gentleman commenced the other President's sons' campaign for the vote of no-confidence for the speaker-father of the revealing son.

Expose a political ill either in business or economic field or anything and expect a political maneuvering to come along your way very soon.

The Philippine ambassador to the Vatican has to be replaced because of an alleged absence of her political backing against the noise and criticism from the church to the administration. The replacement was just foreshadowed and the resignation of the ambassador preceded the replacement. The incoming ambassador is a wife of a pro-administrative senator. Nice prize!

But that is only in the state.

The archbishop of Pangasinan banned the healing priest to conduct a mass inside the province. Accordingly, the healing priest is not based in Pangasinan but outside the country. He has no direct authority from the parish of the catholic church to do healing mass and at the same time sell his rosaries and other items to make money.

Healing and selling, mass and horizontal faith are becoming separate issues in the church too.

The announced boycott of the Australian Anglican bishops in Sydney on July to August this year from their once in a decade world-wide Lambeth Conference on gays and same sex marriage is also because of the ordination of an open-gay bishop in their churchwhich is also a world-wide issue in the church.

The Lambeth Conference is held every 10 years and is the highest meeting of the world Anglican communion, bringing together more than 800 bishops from all over the world.

Unresolved issues divide politics as well as churches and faith.

Sounding as macrocosmic phenomena, there can be some issues in the lower level in the national down to regional and local that manifest the same struggle.

The national is soliciting for the construction of their new building and the local centers too are doing their local center's renovation if not an acquisition of their lot or buidling construction too.

Surplus materials solicitation by the national from the foreign-based members for their adopted barangays, as well as the local centers' solicitation of surplus materials for their community and barangay services are competingly squared.

Well, there seem to be parallel projects and no struggles. But the called or door-knocked donors are almost all the same and the struggle on for whom is their loyalty is thrown to them. It looks like parish here and parish there and who is authorized to do what in where. Hmmmm....

We can be loyal to all, but let me divide my small pizza for all of them.

Shall we go back to the old argument on the separation of church and state? Or do the two posess polarity to be harmonious to each other and be seen as one and united centering on a systematized, principled purpose?