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Archbishop Socrates Villegas
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                    [Title] => Archbishop Soc: Selling your vote not a sin if…
                    [Summary] => While vote buying and selling is illegal, a well-known bishop said accepting money when the situation calls for it may not necessarily be a sinful act.
                    [DatePublished] => 2021-10-30 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Robertzon Ramirez
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                    [Title] => Palace vows to bring killers of priests to justice
                    [Summary] => Malacañang on Wednesday assured the Catholic Church that the government is doing what it takes to investigate the killings of clergymen and vowed that it would put the killers behind bars.
                    [DatePublished] => 2018-06-13 11:17:00
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                    [Title] => ‘Vulgarity is corruption’
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Will Rodrigo Duterte make a good Philippine president?

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Everyone deserves respect whether he may be the Holy Pope or not.

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Archbishop Socrates Villegas, the current president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, has a long history of closeness to the Aquino family, a closeness that continues to this day. Considering the power and influence of the Aquino family, it is not farfetched to imagine that such a closeness would be a beneficial one for Villegas.

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A man who claimed to be a messenger of Abraham and David chained himself to the flagpole of the Cebu Provincial Capitol yesterday morning as allegedly “ordered by the wisdom” to bring together the four “pillars of the country.”

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Will President Aquino issue a statement on Monday, Sept. 21, which marks the 43rd year after Ferdinand E. Marcos declared martial law and began a 14-year fascist dictatorship whose pernicious imprints remain to this day? What will he say?

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The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) yesterday expressed its opposition to moves to legalize same-sex union in the country.

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Mariin pa ring nanindigan ang Simbahang Katolika laban sa panukalang batas na payagan ang diborsiyo sa bansa at ma-decriminalize o hindi na maparusahan ang masasangkot sa adultery o concubinage.

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Following  “confusion” as to whether or not Cebu Archbishop Emeritus Ricardo Cardinal Vidal urged President Aquino to step down, Cebu archdiocese officials yesterday clarified that the Church is not backing calls for the president to resign.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1386325 [AuthorName] => Jessa Agua [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) ) )
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