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Sunday, February 25, 2018
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MANILA – The divorce bill, which passed the committee level at the House of Representatives last week, is against family, a Catholic prelate has insisted.
Sorsogon Bishop Arturo Bastes was dismayed by the representative’s decision.
“This is a very disappointing development,” he said. “The Philippines is the only Catholic country in the world where divorce is forbidden. The Church should rally against this law by showing the disastrous effect of divorce that destroys the family, the basic unit of society and the domestic Church.”
“Divorce is a direct affront to the law ordained by God and specifically reiterated by our Lord Jesus Christ,” the prelate added.
Bastes hopes legislators will see the sanctity of marriage and the effects of divorce in nations allowing it.
“The destruction of families by divorce is a project of Satan, the enemy par excellence of God,” he said.
Father Jerome Secillano, executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines’ Public Affairs Committee, said Congress will betray its mandate if it approves divorce.
“Divorce is anti-marriage and anti-family! By passing this measure, Congress betrays its mandate to protect our country’s legally and morally declared social and inviolable institutions,” he said in a post on Facebook.
“The Church is all for the protection of rights, especially of the aggrieved parties in marriage,” he said. “But protection of rights should go hand in hand with upholding our cherished institutions like marriage.”
“While divorce may indeed vindicate the rights of women, as congressmen believed, it is unfortunately to the detriment of marriage and family as sacred institutions that should otherwise be protected by the State,” Secillano added.
A technical working group of the Committee on Population and Family Relations headed by Rep. Edcel Lagman approved a substitute bill that consolidates several measures seeking to legalize divorce. (PNA)
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