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    What Is RA 1425? Why Was It Passed? Give A Short Summary

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    RA 1425, also known as the Rizal Law, requires the study of Jose Rizal's life and works in schools to promote Filipino patriotism. It was passed in 1956 on Philippine Independence Day. The Catholic Church strongly criticized the law, viewing Rizal's novels as sacrilegious. They feared it would violate freedom of religion. Other Catholic groups also opposed the law. The law was only passed after lawmakers agreed to remove offensive parts of Rizal's books and only require universities to teach the full versions. The Senate bill for RA 1425 was Senate Bill 438.

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    RA 1425, also known as the Rizal Law, requires the study of Jose Rizal's life and works in schools to promote Filipino patriotism. It was passed in 1956 on Philippine Independence Day. The Catholic Church strongly criticized the law, viewing Rizal's novels as sacrilegious. They feared it would violate freedom of religion. Other Catholic groups also opposed the law. The law was only passed after lawmakers agreed to remove offensive parts of Rizal's books and only require universities to teach the full versions. The Senate bill for RA 1425 was Senate Bill 438.

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    RA 1425, also known as the Rizal Law, requires the study of Jose Rizal's life and works in schools to promote Filipino patriotism. It was passed in 1956 on Philippine Independence Day. The Catholic Church strongly criticized the law, viewing Rizal's novels as sacrilegious. They feared it would violate freedom of religion. Other Catholic groups also opposed the law. The law was only passed after lawmakers agreed to remove offensive parts of Rizal's books and only require universities to teach the full versions. The Senate bill for RA 1425 was Senate Bill 438.

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    What Is RA 1425? Why Was It Passed? Give A Short Summary

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    RA 1425, also known as the Rizal Law, requires the study of Jose Rizal's life and works in schools to promote Filipino patriotism. It was passed in 1956 on Philippine Independence Day. The Catholic Church strongly criticized the law, viewing Rizal's novels as sacrilegious. They feared it would violate freedom of religion. Other Catholic groups also opposed the law. The law was only passed after lawmakers agreed to remove offensive parts of Rizal's books and only require universities to teach the full versions. The Senate bill for RA 1425 was Senate Bill 438.

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    1. What is RA 1425? Why was it passed?

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    The Rizal Law, otherwise called RA 1425, decrees the study of Rizal's life and works, as
    demonstrated in section 1. This Republic Act requires an expanded feeling of patriotism from the
    Filipinos during a period of a decreasing Filipino identity.
    In 1955, Senator Claro M. Recto propositioned that all schools in the Philippines to teach
    students about the life and works of Jose Rizal. It was passed on June 12, 1956, harmonizing
    with the Philippines' Independence Day and is now known as Republic Act 1425, or Rizal Law.
    The official title of the law is much longer: An Act to Include in the Curricula of All Public and
    Private Schools, Colleges and Universities Courses On the Life, Works and Writings of Jose
    Rizal, Particularly His Novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, Authorizing the Printing
    and Distribution Thereof, and for Other Purposes.
    2. What is the controversy behind RA 1425? Who were the critics of the RA?
    The law was heavily criticized by the Catholic Church due to fear that it would violate freedom
    of conscience and religion. When the Church found out about Recto’s bill, it equipped its
    energies to prevent it from becoming law. Ironically, almost 70 years after the publication
    of Noli Me Tangere, the Church still viewed Rizal’s novels as sacrilegious due to anti-clerical
    elements in the novel. The Catholic Church of 120 years ago used the same influence in
    preventing the novels to be read by Filipinos. 
    Manila Archbishop Rufino Santos wrote an ardent pastoral letter in resistance. It was read in all
    masses in the country, much of the anger of then Manila Mayor Arsenio Lacson, who supposedly
    left the mass when he heard the pastoral letter being read. Lacson was perhaps the most vocal
    allies of the Rizal Bill.
    Many Catholic groups like the Knights of Columbus also opposed the RA and schools run by the
    Church banded together in resistance, threatening to shut down if the Rizal Law will be passed.
    Sen. Recto reacted by saying the government would basically take control over the
    administration of these schools the moment they shut down, and nationalize them.
    The Rizal Bill only became the Rizal Law after a settlement between the Catholic Church and
    the lawmakers was reached.
    The lawmakers, particularly Recto, consented to the state of watering down the ethically
    offensive pieces of Rizal's books before they were instructed to schools. They considered it the
    expurgated adaptations. Further, it was concurred that only universities and colleges would show
    these materials to their students.
    3. What is the Senate Bill of RA 1425?
    Senate Bill 438

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