Noy excommunication possible — CBCP
By Aytch S. de la Cruz 10/01/2010In a bid to make President Aquino bow to the Catholic bishops’ stand against the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill that will have government providing contraceptives to those who choose to utilize the artificial method in cutting down the size of their families, though “responsible parenthood,” the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), Bishop Nereo Odchimar of Tandag, Surigao del Sur yesterday, in an interview with Catholic radio station Veritas, threatened Aquino with a possible excommunication if he continues to be firm on his stand on family planning through choice.
The bishop said: “Well, being the President of all, you must consider the position of the Catholic Church because we are approaching these issues from the moral aspect like the unborn. Abortion is a grave crime and excommunication is attached to this. That is an issue of gravity; that is a violation of God’s commandment,” Odchimar said, adding, when prodded during the interview, that excommunication of Aquino, who is a Catholic, is a “proximate possibility.”
“That (excommunication) is a possibility.
Right now, it is a proximate possibility.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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