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Catholic and pro-RH?

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Can you be Catholic and pro-RH, too?   Even as the contentious RH Bill 4244 is undergoing amendment in Congress, the Church perseveres in its fight for human life.   Increasingly virulent attacks against the Catholic Church continue to be launched in media, especially social media, branding her as “the biggest stumbling block” to the approval of the bill that sees population control as the solution to poverty.   Unable to resist the gravity of President Noynoy’s agenda, RH proponents voted to end the debate a day ahead of schedule.   They said it was a tiresome, repetitive exercise in futility, stubbornly refusing to see that questions had to be raised over and over again because their answers dismally failed to deliver the truth. Through the RH debates, a glaring truth surfaces: central to the head-on collision is the difference in the way the two camps regard the human being.   RH Bill sees the person (especially the poor person) as a number in the arithmetic of popula

Mga Tanong at Sagot tungkol sa RH Bill 4244

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Ni Teresa R. Tunay, OCDS Tanong 1.   Wala po kaming panahong basahin at unawain ang kopya ng RH Bill na nasa kamay namin, pero napanood po naming pinagdedebatihan sa tv.   Ano po ba talaga ang kontrobersyal na RH Bill na yan? Sagot:   Ito ang Reproductive Health Bill 4244, na naka-base sa paniniwalang labis nang lumolobo ang populasyon ng Pilipinas na siyang nagiging sanhi ng lubos nitong paghihirap.   Maraming ulit na itong isinususog sa kongreso ng Pilipinas ngunit hindi ito makapasa para maging batas.    Tanong 2.   Bakit po hindi ito makapasa, samantalang sabi po sa debate ay mabuti daw ito?          Sagot:   Kung lubos na mabuti ito, di sana’y matagal na itong naging batas.   Marami pong mga bagay sa RH Bill ang tinututulan ng maraming kongresista, unang-una na ay yung pinagpipilitan ng Bill na gawing solusyon sa kahirapan ang pagliit ng populasyon.   Pakay ng RH Bill na magpamigay ang gobyerno nang libre sa mahihirap ng mga gamot at serbisyong nakapipigil sa

Filipinos, the truest of believers?

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By Teresa R. Tunay, OCDS      After the Philippines gets the flak from travelers worldwide for having “The Worst Airport in the World”—the Ninoy Aquino International Airport—here comes a survey that says Philippines is Number One.  Wow!  A report on the survey, titled “Belief about God across Time and Countries”, was released on April 18, 2012 by the General Social Survey of National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago.  NORC is an organization whose mission is “to conduct high-quality social science research in the public interest.”  Filipinos may rejoice to hear that in this study, the Philippines came out as the country with the highest belief, with 94 percent of Filipinos saying they were strong believers who had always believed in God. The top four after the Philippines are Chile (87.9), the United States (80.8), Poland (80.2) and Portugal (78.9).  Taking the 6 th to the 10 th slots are: Cyprus (76.5), Israel (73.2), Italy (72.1), Northern

Philippines, my user-friendly Philippines

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By Teresa R. Tunay, OCDS  A nagging question hereabouts is: what causes poverty in the Philippines: corruption or overpopulation?   To justify corruption it is easy to quash “Kung walan g corrupt, walang mahirap” with “Kung walang mahirap, walang corrupt.”   And if you tell the “baby factories” that their “overproduction” is keeping the Philippines poor, they may squelch your arguments with “But our children are our wealth!” We know that the greed of the corrupt is never satisfied, and that the supposed “wealth” of the poor are exploited as beggars, thieves and white slaves. Lest we think that the only cause of poverty in our country is either corruption or overpopulation, I dare say it is neither.   The real culprit is lack of love.   We do not really love ourselves and our country.   Notice that hardly anyone sings the national anthem at the movie theaters?   People stand up when it is played but they don’t sing; some continue to chat, giggle, or eat.   Mine may be an uns