Ang panagtam- bayayong Simbahan ug Estado

Sa akong hunahuna, kining giingon nga separation of Church and State, nagpasabut kini nga dili maghilabtanay ang Simbahan ug Gobiyerno. Dili mag-away. Apan, wala magpasabot nga dili mahimong magtinabangay.

Kining usa ka headline sa Philippine Star nga nagkanayon, “Marcos to work closely with Church,”naghulagway nga despite sa pagka-‘separated,’ mahimo nga magbinuligay ug magtambayayong ang Simbahan ug ang Estado.

Sa ato pa, wala moisip si BBM nga iyang kontra, iyang kaaway ang Simbahan.

Atong kutluon kining pamahayag ni Archbishop Charles John Brown ang Papal Nuncio dinhi sa Pilipinas: “President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has voiced his readiness to cooperate closely with the Catholic Church and the Vatican.”

Si Marcos mihimo niining maong commitment atol sa courtesy call ngadto kaniya, kanila ni Brown ug laing lima ka foreign diplomats, diin si Brown nagkanayon nga ang ilang pagpakigkita sa president-elect, was ‘positive’ and ‘productive.’

Dugang ni Brown: “We had a very productive, encouraging and positive discussion and the president-elect assured me of his desire to collaborate, cooperate closely with the church and Holy See.”

Sayo pa, ang social arm of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) mi-congratulate ni Marcos ug sa vice president-elect Sara Duterte-Carpio.

Samtang ang Caritas Philippines, pinaagi sa ilang chairman, si Bishop Jose Colin Bagaforo sa Kidapawan, sa iyang pagpahalipay sa incoming nga BBM-Sara administration, mipahinumdom sa duruha sa ilang mga saad panahon sa kampanya, nga kinahanglan ila gayud tumanon.

Kahinumdom pa mo sa ilang mga pasalig ug mga saad? Usahay ra ba, kita mismo, dali rang makalimot. Maoy hinungdan nga silang mihimo sa mga saad pagpalimot-limot lang pud usab.

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Hapit na man mohurar ang nangapili sa niaging eleksiyon, ug natural mohimo man gayud sila sa ilang mga inaugural speech ug mga pangaliya, aniay usa ka pag-ampo nga matud pa: “The prayer that shocked the world.” Mahimo nga ila kining kopiyahon. Dili lang ni nato Binisay-on, kay tingali unya nga dili na hinuon masabtan. Ania:

(When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard):

“Father we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know your Word says, “Woe to those who call evil good,” but this is exactly what we have done.

“We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and we have reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and we called it choice. We shot antiabortionists and we called it justifiable.

“We have neglected to discipline our children and we called it building self esteem. We have abused power and we called politics. We have committed our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition.

“We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honoured values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

“Search us Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us of every sin and set us free. Amen.”

Nindot no?