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For
the past couple of months, we just keep mum over the internal
power struggle in the national level of the Couples for Christ
because we cannot afford to join its funeral. The time, effort,
resources and use of talent we poured in to help CFC grow
in the province since the mid 90's not even worth mentioning.
From
1995 to 2001, CFC in Bohol grew by leaps and bounds as its
structure and operational mechanism seemed perfect for Christian
couples. The ministries expanded including the Kids for Christ,
Singles for Christ, Handmaids of the Lord and the Servants
of the Lord.
Then
came the Gawad Kalinga which started out as a practical evangelization
by building houses for homeless families. Unfortunately, it
caused the CFC's polarization.
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There
is now a full-blown verbal fireworks between Frank Padilla's
breakaway group against Tony Meloto and Joe Tale's GK, which
is accused of promoting the use of contraceptives among the
communities it helped because some of GK's corporate partners
favored population control and the use of contraceptives.
In other words, GK is accused of not pushing for natural planning-as
prescribed by the Catholic Church.
This
prompted the Vatican to intervene and sought for a "public
reparation" of this "public scandal", the terms
used by Stanislaw Cardinal Rylko, president of the Pontifical
Council for the Laity in his letter to Tale dated March 11
and urged GK "to stop receiving this type of funding"
in order to help recover CFC's good standing.
Oh
my, how we envy Mike Velarde's El Shaddai and the construction
of its ultra-modern and highly sophisticated place of worship
which will soon become one of Manila's newest city.
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So
why do we have to worry about crisis? It's practically in
all field of human life.
According
to Erap Estrada, we are not wanting of any crisis. We have
a lots of them: rice, fuel, population, etc.
But
the most important crisis that we have, said Erap, is truth
crisis. Well, that's not too bad from a person who himself
bears a lot of crises, morality on top of them.
During
his recent birthday bash, Erap has still the temerity and
the gall to proclaim, in the wake of prodding him to seek
the Presidency again in 2010, that he will just cross the
bridge when he reaches there. Problem is, the bridge is still
under construction. A typical Eraption.
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With
all due respect, we dare City Mayor Dan Lim to make true his
pronouncements over his radio program yesterday morning to
challenge the existence of the joint venture agreement between
Salcon and the Provincial Government of Bohol amid the move
of Bohol Light Company to pass on the burden to its power
consumers the franchise tax it has paid to the city government.
The
city mayor also disclosed that the city will be applying for
a franchise from Congress to give Bohol Light Company a run
for its money.
This
is a welcome development because the so-called "buy-back"
move has become "buy-backakon", to borrow the terminology
of former OIC Gov. Victor de la Serna.
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