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BACAREZA
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MANILA.
What would have happened if the Germans conquered the
Philippines a hundred years ago?
The
new two-volume book, Philippine-German Relations: A
Modern History, 1834-2000, by a Boholano scholar, Monsignor
Hermógenes E. Bacareza, SVD, answers the question
with one word: discipline. The corruption, scandals,
crimes and unbridled politics might have been less conspicuous
and more controlled by the German system, which adopts
love of order and discipline not only in individual
lives but also in government circles.
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The
new book, published by the UST Press, was recently launched
at the University of Santo Tomas Graduate School in
Manila with German Embassy officials, representatives
from the German Cultural Center, Philippine government
officials and UST Faculty members and students graced
the occasion.
President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo congratulated the author for
his scholarly and systematic work which certainly strengthens
the harmonious relations between the Philippines and
the Federal Republic of Germany. Philippine Ambassador
to the Republic of Korea, Madame Susan O. Castrense
praised the author's novel ideas, helpful insights and
stylized writing. A former Fhilippine Ambassador to
Germany, Madame Minerva Jean A. Falcon praised the author's
initiative in "chronicling a vital and dynamic
component of Philippine foreign relations - the Philippine
German ties."
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Monsignor
"Loloy" Bacareza, as he is fondly called by friends,
comes from Maribojoc, Bohol. A holder of three doctoral degrees
and alumnus of UST, Germany's Goethe Institut, Pontifical
Gregorian University in Rome and Harvard University in the
USA. In 2003, he was awarded the highest German Verdienstkreuz
for his invaluable service to the German Government. He is
presently professor of German and Modern European History
at the UST Graduate School. He has also been teaching Matrimonial
Law and Rotal Jurisprudence at the UST Central Seminary and
Criminal Law (Sanctions and Processes) at Tagaytay's Divine
Word Theologate. Being an active member of the Canon Law Society
of the Philippines, he works as a Judicial Vicar of the Vicariate
of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro and as Presiding Judge at
the National Appellate Matrimonial Tribunal at the CBCP Building,
Intramuros, Manila.
Copies
will be available at the Catholic Trade bookstore and the
Bohol Arcade at the Carlos P. Garcia Avenue, Tagbilaran City.
Proceeds will benefit the poor street children in the depressed
areas in Manila. (Jo B. Recillo, Mendez, Cavite)
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