Only days before elections, a religious group made up of over a thousand Catholic Church leaders called on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to ensure “clean and honest” elections.The
Fr. Robert Reyes —JOAN BONDOC/INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
The priests belonging to the Clergy for the Moral Choice on Wednesday, May 4, marched to the Palacio del Gobernador and celebrated Mass in front of the Comelec headquarters to demand that the poll body carry out a “clean, honest, accurate, meaningful and peaceful” elections.“Let us not be distracted. We have to campaign hard for moral choices.
In endorsing Robredo and Pangilinan, Reyes said the CMC had an “examination of conscience” even as he recalled a time when the Catholic Church, under Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin, was “never ambivalent to fight evil.” Sin was a leading figure in the Edsa People Power Revolution that toppled the Marcos dictatorship.
In a statement read, the CMC emphasized how “crucial” this year’s polls is as Catholic leaders could not afford to stay silent on the false and misleading information being spread, specifically on how some Filipinos are being conditioned on social media to believe that the martial law period was the country’s “golden years.”
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