FILIPINO Catholics who worry about the absolute divorce bill in Congress warmly welcomed Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican Secretary of State for Relations with States and International Organizations, when he arrived for a meeting with Filipino bishops and with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
They obviously thought he had come to intervene in the current effort in Congress to end the Philippines ' status as the only country after the Vatican that has not legalized divorce. He did not.Indeed, in one forum, he encouraged Catholics to listen to their pastors on the bill. But he had far broader and more urgent concerns.
Aside from the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the risk of war breaking out between the US and China as a result of provocations and counter-provocations in the South China Sea appears to be, in the view of the Vatican and others, the biggest threat to world peace.Sustained propaganda against China seems to have convinced many Filipinos that we are on the brink of a Chinese invasion of the Philippines.
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