Incoming DepEd chief asked to resign from priesthood
06/27/2010 Employees of the Department of Education (DepEd) have called on incoming Education Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro to resign from priesthood before he assumes his post on July 1 “to avoid legal and other complications.” Lawyer Domingo Alidon, president of the DepEd National Employees Union (DepEd-NEU), in a statement, yesterday said Luistro could choose instead to go on leave from priesthood during his stint as DepEd secretary, taking the cue from former Pampanga Gov. Eduardo “Among Ed” Panlilio who, along with two other priests, was suspended from his pastoral duties for running for elected office in 2007. He added Bishop Leonardo Medroso, chairman of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Episcopal Commission on Canon Law, cited a conflict between a priest’s role in political or government undertakings and in the church. “How can Secretary Luistro serve two masters at the same time — the government and the church. As DepEd secretary, he will be expected to make difficult decisions for the good of the people — including Muslims and non-Catholic Christians — that could contravene teachings of the Catholic Church,” said Alidon, who heads the country’s biggest registered rank-and-file employees’ union in the government sector. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100627hed4.html |
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