National Glory Beyond Measure
It seems the Philippine officialdom is not giving enough support and solicitude to insure victory?
It seems the Philippine officialdom is not giving enough support and solicitude to insure victory?
?What a concrete dialectical interplay of the “holy and unholy”, the “merciful and harsh”, the “compassionate and cruel” in these recent events in Philippine history!
Revolutionary political activism in spite of the Church leadership is still a very relevant phenomenon for the liberation of the country from poverty and underdevelopment.
Interestingly and no doubt, the opportunity the Pope created in his visit expands to the fact that social diseases indeed urgently need our collective management towards a more responsive society consistent with our national heroes’ dreams of a better Philippines.
There is no doubt that his hypocritical posturing of being the scion of an avid Catholic family will ever be affected in profound ways by the words of Pope Francis. His political career is only as extensive as his class interest. And class interest is just as thick as blood. There is much whiplash to expect from his big-landed-gentry upbringing after this brief season of euphoric windfall of the Papal visit.