Not so fast, ex-justice warns exorcist on Lipa apparition decree

‘Give me the document, let me examine it. If it’s valid, if it’s really authentic, then I will submit myself. Who am I to fight the Pope?’ retired Sandiganbayan justice Harriet Demetriou tells Rappler

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“You know, I am a lawyer and I’m a justice as well. I go by the evidence,” said Demetriou, who was also the first female chairperson of the Commission on Elections.The Lipa apparition has long been a source of tension between devotees and the Catholic hierarchy in the Philippines – an example of the power of popular devotions, or expressions of faith emanating from the grassroots, in this country once ruled by Spanish friars and now still hugely influenced by the Catholic Church.

On Tuesday, March 19, the Archdiocese of Lipa disclosed the 1951 Vatican decree on the Lipa apparition, which the Catholic Church declined to publish for decades. She noted that according to the Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law, as she paraphrased it, “no decree made by the Pope can be official and can be valid unless it’s published” in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, the official Vatican gazette.

“Why now? Why now? Because of my two perjury cases against Father Cabading. Where did it come from? What is the source? Let me check the official source. Because CBCP is not the Vatican. The Archdiocese of Lipa is neither the Vatican,” she said. Cabading withheld comment on Demetriou’s reaction on Wednesday, and referred Rappler to CBCP secretary-general Monsignor Bernardo Pantin, a canon lawyer who earned his doctorate in canon law at the Angelicum in Rome. Pantin has not responded to our query as of posting time.

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