State of the Catholic Church in the Philippines

This is a screenshot of an entry in FilipiKnow.net from a TPC reader.

This came from an article entitled 9 Philippine Icons and Traditions That May Disappear Soon.

In what could be something providential, this screenshot came into my mailbox just a few minutes after I posted this about the defenders of the Sampaloc Catholic church masquerade ball.

Which leads us to this point ladies and gentlemen...

A secular website hits it right on head when it identified the causes of our dying spirituality.

We pride ourselves to be the home country of one of the most "renowned" liturgist of the Catholic Church yet our Masses have become sources of entertainment, treated as if it were a game show or a theater play.

Our priests get ordained, receiving the special indelible mark on their soul to offer the Holy Sacrifice for the expiation of our sins, to forgive and absolve the sins of the penitent, to baptize and save the soul of an infant, to cast out demons in the name of Christ....but you see the most visible, the noisiest of them all, posing as if they were selling the latest fashion trend....or they think they defend the Church using gutter language, spewing curses left and right and claiming that they cannot be criticized for such a behavior because they are "alter Christus" (you'd find more sewage in his mouth than in the Pasig River, guaranteed!)....or someone who spends more than 45 minutes on his "homily" but is nothing but a hodge podge of made up stories (of fictitious people they met and talked to) or of jokes and songs you almost forgot you are in a Holy Mass and not in another episode of Vice Ganda's videoke stand-up comedy routine...or a priest who flaunts being in an exclusive club while the other part of the country is suffering from the wrath of a super typhoon...

We even have priests who openly support the homosexual agenda! (Watch out for a blog post about another priest who supports the gay agenda.  Tuwang-tuwa ang lola niyo sa SCOTUS decision on same sex "marriage".)

Narcissist priests!  That's what's killing the Church from within.

And add to that spineless bishops who can't even muster the strength to confront a university within his diocese who openly supported the RH Law which is in complete disobedience to the teachings of the Catholic Church.

But when you see this bishop, he chuckles like a Sesame Street character you'd think "Hmm!  Everything seems alright..."

For him it is alright, even if that university continues to lead Catholics away from the Faith from a society of priests and brothers founded to combat heresy.  Hey!  If you can't beat them join them no?

Retired Lingayen Dagupan Archbishop is right.  He said that if all the Catholics in the Philippines would come to Mass on Sundays, all the Mass schedules and all the churches wouldn't be able to accommodate all the faithful coming to worship.

We pride ourselves to be the only Catholic nation in Asia yet we cannot even bring our people into our churches every Sunday.

We pride ourselves to be the only Catholic nation in Asia yet we have allowed the passage of the Reproductive Health Law.

We pride ourselves to be the only Catholic nation in Asia yet we are riddled with corruption in and out of government.

Does it need a regular visit from the Pope to enliven our faith?

Even if the Pope would stay in the Philippines, do we even know if the Katipunan University will stop its relativistic, ok I'll say it, HERETIC teachings?

What does the Catholic Church in the Philippines need?

We need holy priests and it starts at the seminaries.

We need seminarians who are not educated under heretical schools like Maryhill, St. Vincent and all those schools identified by The Pinoy Catholic since 2009.

We need seminarians who want to be ordained not because of the status symbol or fringe benefits of the state of life, but because they want to save souls for Christ.  This means, to BAN these posers, these altar servers FOR LIFE who go around parish after parish, Mass after every Mass, school after school, who carry either a black cassock and surplice, or an alb, and claim to be Master of Ceremonies or instituted acolytes, selling holy cards or relics!  They are a danger to the Faith and they are out there to take advantage of people!

We, the people of God, must do this for ourselves.

We must remain vigilant and active at the same time.

Stop going to Masses of these narcissistic priests!  Stop supporting their causes and instead support priests who are loyal to the Church and to Tradition.

Stop liking or sharing whatever they share in social media.  You are fueling their narcissism.

Stop sending your children to these heretical universities who support Reproductive Health and the LGBT Agenda.  These talk about Tolerance and Acceptance only applies to them and not to those who disagree with them.  They do not tolerate faithful Catholics.  They do not accept Catholics who openly criticize their anti-Catholic agenda.  They silence people who do not agree with them, but are very warm and supportive of anyone who is against the Catholic Church.  Yes, that means you too Miriam College.

I can sum up using the words of the Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen

We deserve the bishops, priests and religious that we have. Why? Because we tolerate the bad ones and do not support the good ones.

If we have so much good bishops and priests out there, why is this happening to the Philippines?

G.U.L.P. Exam

The G.U.L.P. is not obvious to the untrained eye.

First to get it gets a prize. Answer in the comments section.

San Pablo Bishop does it right

In a Funeral Mass in his private chapel, the Bishop Buenaventura Famadico of San Pablo Diocese has a Benedictine Altar arrangement with seven candles. 

If he can do it, why not the others? Are they really afraid of little Jennifer?

Bishop Ben, may your tribe increase!

Inculturated Episcopal Ordination

Ganito ba ang ordinasyon ng Obispo ngayon? May pasayaw sayaw pa nalalaman. Oo nga ang Subli ay para sa karangalan ng Krus ng Alitagtag pero dapat ba na sa loob ng Misa?

Politicians starting to kiss the behind of the Iglesia ni Manalo

LUCENA CITY—A furious Lucena Bishop Emilio Marquez assailed local officials for changing the name of a section of a major street here, originally named after the priest founder of the city, into Felix Manalo Street, after the founder of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC). [You better hold on to something or you would be blown away at the public display of utter ass kissing of these politicians!  Bereft of respect for history!]

“They (local officials) were like Judas who conveniently forgot the revered role of Fr. Mariano Granja in the history of Lucena in exchange for a few thousand votes,” Marquez said in an interview on Wednesday. [best way to put it!]

Granja Street stretches 1,329 meters across the city proper, from its northern tip in Barangay 1 to its end in Barangay 8.

Marquez said officials could have renamed other streets after Manalo and locals would not have minded.   [Yes!  Why would it be the name of the Catholic priest who founded the city?]

“But renaming even just a part of Granja Street into Felix Manalo Street, just because it is where the back of the INC chapel is located, is a grave disrespect to the memory of Father Granja,” Marquez said.  [Oh yes it is!  It is their intention.]

He said Granja, a Spanish Franciscan priest, was known among Lucena folk as the “father of Lucena.”

The late local historian Cesar Villariba Sr. said the city got its name from the town of Lucena in Andalucia, Spain, from where Granja originated.

According to Marquez, “the proponents just want to earn ‘pogi points’ from the INC for their reelection.”

The change of name was made through Ordinance No. 2517, which was passed by the city council in a special session on May 6.

It was approved by Lucena City Mayor Roderick Alcala on the same day.

The authors of the ordinance, Councilors Benito Brizuela and Rey Oliver Alejandrino, said the new street name was in recognition of Manalo’s contribution to Philippine history and cultural heritage. [Remember those names who voted and approved it!  How about in Lucena?  We are talking about a street in Lucena!  What has Manalo done to Lucena?]

In a speech to the council on Feb. 24, Brizuela admitted that he was supported by the INC in the 2007 elections but was not on the INC list of candidates that it supported in the last elections.

Despite this, he said he continued to respect and admire the INC founder. The ordinance requires consultation with the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) on the setting up of a marker in honor of Manalo.

Ten councilors voted to pass the ordinance, except for Councilor Rhaetia Marie Abcede-Llaga, who is in her first term.   [Will the secularist atheists support this councilor for her stand to abide by the law of the land and separate church from state?]

Llaga said she opposed the ordinance because of legal questions. She said the ordinance was railroaded to coincide with Manalo’s birthday on May 10.

She cited a provision in the Local Government Code requiring ordinances changing the names of streets to be approved by a unanimous vote of the council and after consultation with the NHCP.

Citing revised NHCP guidelines, Llaga also said no public place should be renamed if its current name has historical value.

She added that renaming a portion of a public street after Manalo violated the principle of separation of Church and State, as it “would favor one religion over the many other religions” in Lucena City.

She said the naming of the street after Father Granja was a different case, since this was done during the Spanish time, in the 1870s, when the Church wielded political power.

Llaga questioned the lack of a public hearing on the issue.

Officials of Barangay 8, where the controversial road is located, also issued a statement signed by over 200 residents saying they were not consulted.

She admitted that she benefited from the much-vaunted block voting of the INC in the last elections but this did not come into play in her position on the ordinance.

The INC is estimated to have at least 5,000 members in Lucena, which has a voting population of about 120,000.

“I was No. 1 on the INC list. Now, I expect that I’m going to lose their votes. But I’m ready to face the consequences,” said Llaga.

She wrote NHCP Chair Maria Serena Diokno twice—on April 11 and May 7—for guidelines on the issue but Diokno had yet to reply.

City council records showed that the original proposal in February 2013 was to change the name of a portion of Quezon Avenue, in front of the INC chapel, into “Kalye Erano Manalo.”

But the proposal was withdrawn, as revised NHC guidelines prohibit the naming of a public place after a person who has not been dead for more than 10 years.

Erano Manalo died only in 2009.


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This CULT is nothing but trouble!

THE CRISIS OF THE CHURCH IS THE CRISIS OF BISHOPS!

On the eve of the Supreme Court ruling on the Constitutionality of the Reproductive Health Law, some of our bishops have spoken, asking us to gather in prayer and fasting against this demonic law.

However, the first among equals among them remains mum and cannot be found anywhere near the battle for life.

HOW TRUE IS IT THAT ONE BISHOP who has always been vocal in the fight for life and has courageously fought against the then RH Bill, and other anti-life measures HAS NOT BEEN ATTENDING THE BI-ANNUAL PLENARY ASSEMBLY because he is DISGUSTED, yes folks, DISGUSTED at their chief for singing instead of fighting that fateful day not so many months ago?

Thank you Your Excellency for leading the fight even when your brother-bishops including your eldest brother prefers to sit on their thrones.