POPE’S ENVOY CALLS SIN A ‘MAJOR OBSTACLE’ TO THE HOLY SEE'S INFLUENCE OVER BISHOPS
Vatican silenced CBCP amid Gloria quit calls
By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 09/06/2011This was reported by the Tribune in 2000, but then Jaime Cardinal Sin, along with former President Corazon Aquino, rejected the call of the Vatican not to meddle in the political affairs of a country nor lead and join street protests against Estrada.
At that time, even the papal nuncio joined the anti-Estrada protesters and the elite civil society, along with the coup plotters, to oust Estrada. The papal nuncio was on the Edsa stage, together with the Sin and the Supreme Court justices, all hailing Gloria Arroyo.
Apparently, the bishops then led by Sin defied the Vatican and the papal wishes, and went on to oust Estrada.
It was then that the bishops alienated themselves from the Filipino masses, as another protest, this time staged by the masses, was rejected by the bishops, priests and religious, turning against the masses, and calling them “unworthy to be in sacred holy ground,” apart from calling them the “smelly” and the “unwashed.”..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110906hed1.html
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