Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Bishops, Lords or Doctors?

AS Iread from the editorials of today's national dailies, one caught my attenion and I caught:

"Drawing from the years I spent covering the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) as a staff writer of Cor Manila, the official publication of the Archdiocese of Manila in the late 1970s, I commented that “divisions” within the CBCP should not come as a surprise because, even at the height of martial law, the Philippine bishops had been a fractured lot, with some (a noisy minority) vehemently against the regime, while many remained supportive of Marcos and the entire martial law machinery.
Bishop Claver affirmed this, noting how the CBCP is but an assembly where bishops meet to share views and seek consensus, but ultimately, each bishop is free to act and enact policies based on his own appreciation of the discussions."


So leaders in CBCP are divided too.

There are many angles where in FFWPU Philippines, leaders set themselves. The national programs of FFWPU or WCARP are mostly in NCR and what are brought to the provinces by the "bishops" to their local provincial areas are different mode, standard in not the entirety. They are too liberal to exercise the programs and directions from national according to their local resources, capabiliies and understanding.

And I can see the history now evolving in them as well. Padre Damaso aside fro mthe Governor-general, is a common character in Rizal's book and he is a true Filipino character among today's leaders.

I just dont know if they prefer the Christian calling like Bishop or Archbishops. There is no father as priest in FFWPU but True Father.

moreover, leaders now prefer to be known and called publicly as Doctors. He could be Doctor of Tanay or Doctor of NCR instead of Regional Director of NCR.

There were more or less 14 doctors intalled few years ago by the Aglipayan church and all of them were FFWPU leaders in the Philippines. What for?

Church leaders. From FFWPU or IIFWP, Doctor Damaso!?! Doctor Jimz from the Archdiocese of Tanay!?!

Many names, many adjectives!!!! Many standards!!!???

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