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No less than Pope Benedict XVI has admitted of “sins born from within the Church” that “we see today in a truly terrifying way.” A theological-ethical reading of such sins would uncover at least three unresolved issues, namely: the wide... more
No less than Pope Benedict XVI has admitted of “sins born from within the Church” that “we see today in a truly terrifying way.” A theological-ethical reading of such sins would uncover at least three unresolved issues, namely: the wide gap between Church teachings and its laws, the conflicting accounts of authority in the Church, and the hegemony of the clerical ethos. Further analysis would show that the roots of such issues go down deep into the “ways of being church” that we have inherited from the pre-Vatican II era. The current crisis could not be transformed into a kairos by a mere restoration of such ways. In fact, it would only make the Church’s present sins more terrifying than they now are. What is at stake is the future of our corporate identity as the body of Christ in a world very different from ages past. And much would depend on how the whole church, particularly the episcopal college, would make innovative institutional and systemic changes commensurate to the papal...
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Much has been reported about the sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church. Between the period of 1989 and 2011, notes Tom Doyle, a total of 27 reports have been published worldwide.1 Some have their provenance from government... more
Much has been reported about the sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church. Between the period of 1989 and 2011, notes Tom Doyle, a total of 27 reports have been published worldwide.1 Some have their provenance from government commissions2 while others from Church sources or Church-sponsored review boards.3 While none of these reports “said anything about the effect of culture of the sixties and seventies as a factor of causality,” says Doyle, the latest of these, the John Jay Report in the United States, has stirred a hornet’s nest. It concluded that “the increased deviance of society during that time,” as symbolized by the Woodstock Era of sexual liberation, is to
A bstr A ct From a social-ethical point of view, an appalling lack of a sense of common good continues to haunt Philippine political life even after the restoration of democracy through the 1986 People Power revolution. Our study contends... more
A bstr A ct From a social-ethical point of view, an appalling lack of a sense of common good continues to haunt Philippine political life even after the restoration of democracy through the 1986 People Power revolution. Our study contends that it is mainly caused by a polity that does not allow for a participatory deliberation and envisioning of the common good and a political culture that is not nurturing but hindering the collective and institutional commitment for it. While the Roman Catholic Church has been partly responsible for this democratic deficit, it nevertheless remains a social force with a moral high ground for political transformation, if it is able to change its social location and re-invent its social mission. A self-critical Filipino church whose base ecclesial communities are inserted like leaven in civil society holds the most important key to the democratization of Philippine polity and culture in the light of the Gospel.
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The historical fact that the University of Santo Tomas in Manila is the oldest university in the Philippines if not in Asia has been contested by repeated claims of the University of San Carlos in Cebu City. While earlier studies by... more
The historical fact that the University of Santo Tomas in Manila is the oldest university in the Philippines if not in Asia has been contested by repeated claims of the University of San Carlos in Cebu City. While earlier studies by Villarroel, OP and De la Goza, CM have convincingly shown that the latter claim is wrong, this paper would nonetheless like to offer additional evidence and further clarifications. The earliest roots of the University of San Carlos in Cebu is not the Jesuit Colegio de San Ildefonso of 1595 but the Seminario de San Carlos which, under the Vincentian Fathers, began to admit lay students in 1867. The year 1867, not 1595 as claimed, appears to be the auspicious beginning of an educational institution that would later become a university.
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“The globalized world of today needs badly the voice of theology…Theology is not only a noble task, it is a priority in our globalized world. It is along this line that I welcome you, theologians, to our local Church.” DOI:... more
“The globalized world of today needs badly the voice of theology…Theology is not only a noble task, it is a priority in our globalized world. It is along this line that I welcome you, theologians, to our local Church.” DOI: 10.3860/hapag.v7i1.1918 Hapag 7, No. 1 (2010) 5-10
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