Conversation of Archbishop Lefebre and Bishop Marchioni in 1976: Separation of Church and State and the Social Kingship of Christ

At the risk of repeating myself, I come back to the social kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, that dogma of the Catholic faith, which no one can put in doubt without being a heretic: yes, exactly: a heretic!

Do They Still Have the Faith?

Make a judgment then on the dying faith of the Apostolic Nuncio in Bern, Bishop Marchioni, with whom I had the following conversation on March 31, 1976, in Bern:

Lefebre: Some dangerous things can easily be seen… In the declaration on religius liberty, there are some things contrary to what the Popes have taught: it is decided that there can no longer be Catholic States!

Nuncio: But of course, that is evident!

Lefebre: Do you thnk that that is going to do the church any good, this suppression of the Catholic States?

Nuncio: Ah, but you understand, if we do that, we will get a greater religious freedom with the Soviets!

Lefebre: But the social Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ, what are you doing about that?

Nuncio: You know, that is impossible now; perhaps in the distant future? .. Right now, this Reign is in perhaps in individuals’ we hwave to open ourselves up to the masses.

Lefebre: But the encyclical Quas Primas, what do you do with that?

Nuncio: Oh… the Pope would not write that any more, now!

Lefebre: Did you know that in colombia it was the Holy See that asked for the suppression of the Christian constitution of the State?

Nuncio: Yes, and here also.

Lefebre: In the Valais?

Nuncio: Yes, in the Valais.  Anow, you see, I am invited to all the meetings!

Lefebre: Then you approve the letter that Bishop Adam [Bishop of Sion, in the Valais] wrote to the faithful of his diocese to explain to them why they should vote for the law of separataion of Church and State?

Nuncio: You see, the social kingship of Our Lord, it is very difficult now…

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You see, he no longer belie3ves in it: it is an “impossible” or “very difficult” dogma, “which would not be written now any more”!  And how many people think like this today!  How many are incapable of understanding that the Redemption of Our Lord Jesus Christ must be brought about with the help of civil society, and that the State therefore must become, within the limits of the temporal order, the instrument of the application of the work of the Redemption.  they answer you, “Oh, those are two different things; you are mixing politics and religion!”

And yet, all has been created for Our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore for the accomplishment of the work of the Redemption: everything, including civil society, which, I have told you, is itself a creature of the good Lord!  civil society is not a pure creation of the will of men; it results abvove all from the social nature of man, from the fact that god has created men so that they will live in society; it is written into nature by the creator.  Therefore civil society itself, no loess than individuals, must render homage to god, its author and its end, and sever the redeeming design of Jesus Christ.

Source: Archbishop Marcel Lefebre, They Have Uncrowned Him: From Liberalism to Apostasy, the Conciliar Tragedy (Angelus, Kansas, 1988), pp. 99-101.

Jan Leeroy New wins in Ateneo Art Awards 2009: mockery of Catholic iconography as modern art

Outside the Ateneo Art Gallery, perched on the second floor is a statue of an alien: a nude female Gollum with bald head, large eyes, and four breasts.  It is colored gray but the paint drips to the white rock where it stands–if rock it was–more like four rounded breasts lumped together.  It is grinning with malice. (picture here)

The artist is Jan Leeroy New who recently won the Ateneo Art Awards:

Three young artists were declared winners of the 2009 Ateneo Art Awards: The Next Wave during a well-attended ceremony at the Grand Atrium of the Shangri-la Plaza on Shaw Boulevard on August 13, 2009.

Now on its seventh year the Ateneo Art Awards has positioned itself as one of the most prestigious art prizes in the Philippine contemporary art scene. The three winners, who bested nine other finalists, are:

• Kiri Dalena for her exhibit Keeping the Faith at the Lopez Memorial Museum,
• Jan Leeroy New for Terratoma II (War of the Worlds) exhibited at Singapore Biennale 2008, Singapore City Hall, and
• Patricia Eustaquio for Death to the Major Viva Minor exhibited at Slab.

(Ateneo de Manila University website)

According to Philippine Star, “Jan Leeroy New’s sculptures are intergalactic aliens taking over the world, transforming sci-fi mythology into the here and now, welcoming us Earthlings into our own land, with our buildings, icons and landscapes made eerie and hyperreal.”

I found Leeroy New’s multiply site.  I saw the pictures of the sculptures.  Under the veneer of science fiction, it is the Catholic Faith they mock.

Take for example, the album “Santo-santohan” .  In Filipino, a doubling of the word sometimes mean an imitation or a play of the real thing.  Example, bahay-bahayan is to make a little house and pretend you are a mother cooking.  So Santo-santohan is a play on holy things.

• Santo Nino is undressed.  The globe he is holding is gone.  (Copy of santo nino.jpg)
• Christ is a nude female in cruciform position.  His legs are pink. (christ figure front.jpg)
• The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a black man with red heart.  (black heart1.jpg)
• A martyr is a smiling chopped-off head (Martyr1.jpg)

The album “Relief Works” has more parodies of the Sacred Heart.

There is also another album named “Santo-Santohan“:

• The Blessed Sacrament in the Adoration chapel melts like candy.  The adorers are rolling heads (boston exhibit1.jpg)
• Three figures of Mary stepping on the snake on a globe.  Mary is nude with breasts down to her legs.  (tresmarias.jpg)

In the album “Tampo+Lapuk” has some pictures of saints:

• A bishop saint has no arms and head.  In place of its head is his gnarled mitre. (santos.jpg)
• An antique statue of a bishop.  The wood is rotting.   (santos2.jpg)

These sculptures are not Catholic and they mock the Catholic Faith.  These art works should not be shown in a Catholic university such as the Ateneo de Manila University and even honored as work of art.  True art creates and edifies.  False art mocks.  Sam once asked Frodo: “Don’t orcs eat, and don’t they drink?  Or do they just live on foul air and poison?”  And Frodo replied:

No, they eat and drink, Sam.  The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. Idon’t think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them; and if they are to life at all, they have to live like other living creatures.  Foul waters and foul meats they’ll take, if they can get no better, but not poison.  They’ve fed me, and so I’m better off than you.  (Return of the King p. 201)

Enemies of exorcists are not just demons: skeptics, modernists, liberals, positivists, and objective realists

According to AHFI spiritual director Fr. Edgardo Arellano, the practice of exorcism is as old as Christianity itself and even predates it, and the Church teaches that the Devil is real and evil spirits exist.

Arellano, however, laments the fact that the Catholic Church is largely mum about it these days.

He cites the influence of “modern theologians” and those with a liberal mind-set who have played down Satan’s influence as they have accepted psychological and psychiatric explanations of a person’s abnormal behavior.

“If you speak about the Devil, you lose your credibility and you scare people. Even some members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) say this is just fanaticism, a hoax,” Arellano says.

“The greatest influence of the Devil is to convince even bishops and priests that he no longer exists,” he says.

Arellano says the stand of “Positivists,” who are fixated only on the love of God, as well as the claim of “Objective Realists,” who focus only on the modern era and consider evil and exorcism as irrelevant pose a great challenge.

“How can you talk only about God’s love in the midst of corruption and violence? The Bible has numerous passages about Christ expelling demons and being tempted by the Devil. The battle against the Devil is central to His mission. In fact, the Devil’s influence was already seen in Adam and Eve,” he says.

Source: Cyran Cabuenas, Leyte-Samar Priests Learn about Exorcism (PDI 11/06/2009)

Council of Trent on Purgatory: Canons and Decrees

Canon XXX. Session VI.  The Council of Trent January 13, 1547

If anyone says that after the reception of the grace of justification the guilt is so remitted and the debt of eternal punishment so blotted out to every repentant sinner, that no debt of temporal punishment remains to be discharged, either in this world or in Purgaotry, before the gates of Heaven can be opened, let him be anathema.

Decree Concering Purgatory.  the council of Trent.  Sexxion XXV.  December 4, 1563

Since the Catholic Church, instructed by the Holy ghost, has, folloiwng the sacred writings and the ancient tradition of the Fathers, taught in sacred councils and very recently in this ecumentical council, that there is a Purgatory, and that the souls there detained are aided by the suffrages of the faithful and chiefly by the Acceptable Sacrifice of the Altar, the Holy Council commands the bishops that they strive diligently to the end that the sound doctrine of Purgatory, transmitted by the Fathers and sacred councils, be believed and maintained by the faithful of Christ, and be everywhere taught and preached.

Canons concerning the Sacrament of Penance.  the Council of Trent.  Session XIV.  November 25, 1551.

Canon 12.  If anyone says that god always pardons the whole penalty together with the guilt and that the satisfaction of penitents is nothing else than the faith by which they perceive that Christ has satisfied for them, let him be anathema.

Canon 13.  If anyone says that satisfaction for sins, as to their temporal punishment, is in no way made to God through the merits of Christ by the punishments inflicted by Him and patiently borne, or by those imposed by the priest, or even those voluntarily undertaken, as by fasts, prayers, almsgiving or other works of piety, and that therefore the best penance is merely a new life, let him be anathema.

Canon 14.  If anyone says that the satisfactions by which penitents atone for their sins through Christ are not a worship of God but traditions of men, which obscure the doctrine of grace and the true worship of god and the beneficence itself of the death of Christ, let him be anathema.

Canon 15.  If anyone says that the keys have been given to the Church only to loose and not also to bind, and that therefore priests, when imposing penalties on those who confess act contrary to the purpose of the keys and to the institution of Christ and that it is a fiction that there remains often a temporal punishment to be discharged after the eternal punishment has by virtue of the keyes been removed, let him be anathema.

Chapter IX–On the Works of satisfaction.  Session XIV.  the Council of Trent.  November 25, 1551.

It [the Council] teaches furthermore that the liberality of the divine munificence is so great that we are able through Jesus christ to make satisfaction to God the Father, not only by punishments voluntarily undertaken by ourselves to atone for sins, or by those imposed by the judgment of the priest accordinag to the measure of our offense, but also, and this is the greatest proof of love, by the temporal afflictions imposed by God and borne patiently by us.

Source:  Fr. F. X. Schouppe, S.J., Purgatory: Explained by the Lives and Legends of the Saints (Tan, Rockford, Ilinois, 1986), pp. vi-viii.

Fr. Timoteo Ofrasio, S.J. to celebrate a Traditional Latin Mass at the convent of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate in Novaliches

(Update 06 Nov 2009: This mass was postponed because Fr. Tim is sick.)

I

This afternoon I went to the Loyola House of Studies to visit Fr. Timoteo Ofrasio, S.J.  It is a few minutes walk from the Manila Observatory.  You know it is the Loyola House of Studies when you see a dead end. I climbed a few steps and went to the porter.

“Is Fr. Tim Ofrasio around?” I asked.

“Do you have an appointment?”  asked the porter.

“No,” said I.  “But Fr. Tim told me that I can visit him any day 3 p.m. down.”

“What is your name?”

“Quirino Sugon”

She called Fr. Tim and she asked me to sit down.  I sat on one of the lounge sofas.  The lobby is spacious.  In the wall facing me is a large bronze plaque with names of Loyola House of Studies donors.  On my left is an underground corridor and a little pool with a statue of St. Ignatius in his pilgrim clothes and staff.  Maybe he is looking for fishes, but like Peter he found none.  On my right is the porter and outside near the entrance is the store of the Jesuit Music Ministry.  The store sells cds, books, and music sheets.

II

I was still scribbling on the points I would like to say when I saw Fr. Tim walking towards me.  He wore a brown barong.  I stood to meet him.  We shook hands.

“The (Franciscan) sisters asked me to say a mass in their convent this First Friday?” he said.  “They will fetch me.”

“Do you know what kind of vestment they use?  Is it curve-shaped like mine or straight?” he asked.

“I think it is straight, Father.” I replied.  “They make their own vestments.”

I saw a golden chasuble in the convent last October when Sr. Magdalene toured me around.  Exquisite needlework.  Sr. Magdalene said that a set of vestments must be ordered together with other altar cloths.  And there are different vestment colors for each season.  I think she told me its about PhP 5,000 per set, but I may be mistaken.

“Do you know if the gospel is sung or not?” he asked.  “In Missa Cantata, it is the deacon who sings the gospel.”

“I think that the Gospel is in English, Father.”  I am not anymore sure about this.  I was busy looking at the missal and the chants the whole time that I hardly see the altar anymore.

“That is well.  I do not anymore have to practice how to sing the Gospel in Latin.”

“The sisters will fetch me at about 5:30 p.m.  Can you come?” he asked.

“If it is okay with you, Father.”  I replied.

“You may call the sisters.  But they may ask you to accompany me instead to Novaliches.”

This is what was originally planned last week.

“I also do not have a car, Father.” I said.  “We shall commute in that case.”

“It is better that they come here,” he said.  “I still have to bring my own liturgical vestments.”

III

“Have you formed a group for the Latin mass?” he asked.

“So far, I have seven.” I said.  “Can I use your name for announcement in Blue Board and in Campus Ministry, Father?”

“What is Blue Board?”

“Blue Board is the email subscription of the faculty and staff of Ateneo de Manila University.”

“Okay, you may use my name.”

“Do you know the email address of Fr. Jojo Zerrudo?  Some people are asking me.”

“No, Father.  But Fr. Jojo has a facebook account.”  Fr. Jojo has added me as one of his friends in Facebook.  I think I can find his email address there.

IV

“How is the Manila Observatory’s chapel?” he asked.

I showed to him a little sketch.  The Tabernacle I  moved from the side to the center.  There are three long candles on each side.

“You have candelabras there?”

“No, Father.  We still have to buy.  The altar is movable.”

“Well, the chapel should not be for exclusive TLM use.  The design is okay.  Just stick to the basics.  When you are done with the final design, show it to me.”

“Okay, Father.”

And we parted.

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Monk’s Hobbit’s 1st Anniversary: Some reflections on mission and vision

Today is the official 1st year anniversary of Monk’s Hobbit.  Actually, my first post was on Oct 21, 2008, a short poem entitled “The Dark Ages are at Hand.”  October 21 was the feast of St. Hilarion.  Here is what the 1962 Baronius missal says about him:

St. Hilarion, a native of Paelstine, was instructed by the first lawgiver of the anchorites, St. Anthony the Great, and became one of the founders of the eremetical life in the Holy Land, Syria and Egypt.  He died A.D. 372.

It is fitting that Monk’s Hobbit’s first post is on the feast day of a monk.

My next post was on November 5, 2008, entitled “St. Ignatius’s rules for thinking with the church and the Ateneo faculty’s dissent against Humanae Vitae“.  At that point I finally knew what I wish to do in my blog: to revive the authentic Jesuit Spirituality of Ateneo de Manila University through St. Ignatius’s “Rules for Thinking, Judging, and Feeling with the Church“.  In line with this, I would like to propose the following for the years ahead:

1. ACIL (Ateneo Catechetical Instruction League) should not be classified as socially oriented organization
2. The Sodality of Our Lady should be separated from Christian Life Communities
3. Liberation Theology should be optional in college.  Possible alternatives would be Mariology or Dogmatic Theology.
4. Greek and Latin (traditional Ateneo strengths) should be offered together with the present Spanish, French, and German.
5. Traditional latin mass should be be offered weekly or daily in the college chapel.
6. Real novenas, e.g. Sacred Heart, should be introduced and not the present two paragraph novenas within the mass.
7. Masses should start with a rosary.
8. Liturgical dancing and sitting masses should be banned.

I can go on.  These suffice for now.  “Mary for you, for your white and blue.  We pray you’ll keep us Mary faithful to you.  We pray you’ll keep us Mary faithful and true.”

So what is special about November 4? Well, it is my 34th birthday. I am already past my tweens, “as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at 33″ (Fellowship of the Ring, p. 22). So today is also my 1st year from my coming of age. I am as old as my blog.  November 4 is also the Feast of St. Charles Borromeo (Carolus Borromeus). Pope John Paul II celebrates this feast instead of his birthday because his name is Karol. St. Charles and I are still not that close–I have not still prayed to him–unlike in the case of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Albert the Great, St. Augustine of Hippo, and St. Robert Bellarmine. I have affinity to saints who are both theologians and scientists. But I just read that St. Charles’s favorite are Jesuits. And he is known for building seminaries for the education of priests.  That is why many seminaries are named after St. Charles or San Carlos.  I think I should invoke St. Charles more often.  St. Charles Borromeo, pray for us.

Fr. Arcenio C. Jesena, S.J. on Fr. Richard G. Leonard, S.J.: How the ingratitude of the Ateneo students and faculty during Martial law broke his heart

I only knew Fr. Richard G. Leonard, S.J. as my European Modern History (Hi 14) professor, but I never really knew him until I read an article about him by his protege, Fr. Arcenio C. Jesena III, S.J. The article is published in authorsden.com. Because of copyright, I could not copy the article in full. I shall just quote some paragraphs:

 

But Martial Law and its aftermath had ravaged both of us. We were no longer what we used to be.

…

Sure, Fr. Leonard still taught and was still a fantastic, well-appreciated European History Professor, but gone was the elan and the joie d’vivre of 1955 and the following 20 years.

Nobody really knew what had happened. But Fr. Leonard was now only a shell of his once-fantastic personality . Before, he was a man full of energy and full of life, always looking around to see what he could do to help, ready to help all those who were in need.

Now, there was only a tired old man, who prepared for and taught his History classes well, but did not otherwise seem to care if the whole world and everybody in it collapsed and vanished from the universe. Nothing and no one seemed to interest him anymore.

…

It seems that during Martial Law some student activists wrote and circulated a letter of protest against the Jesuits and the Ateneo, viciously accusing them of selfishness, greed and injustice. …despicable motives and behavior from people of such high calling.

And if that had not been enough, that same letter was passed around for signatures, and many Faculty Members signed it, including the Faculty Members who had been served generously and who owed so very much to Fr. Leonard and the Jesuit Fathers since the foundation of the Ateneo. Fr. Leonard had given his all…his very all… and THIS was his reward!

“Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms quite vanquished him…then burst his mighty heart…

CBCP recognizes the Couples for Christ Foundation for Family and Life (CFC-FFL) of Frank Padilla

MANILA, October 26, 2009—The Episcopal Commission on the Laity (ECLA) of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has given formal recognition to the Couples for Christ Foundation for Family and Life (CFC FFL) as a National Private Association of the Lay Faithful.

In accordance with Canons 321-320 of the Code of Canon Law, the recognition was approved by the Chairman of ECLA and Antipolo bishop Gabriel Reyes.

“May Our Lord Jesus Christ… continue to bless abundantly the Couples for Christ Foundation for Family and Life as an instrument for the sanctification and strengthening of the family,” Reyes said.

In another development, His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, has re-appointed CFC FFL Servant General Francisco Padilla and his wife Geraldine Padilla as members of the Pontifical Council for the Family.

The servant couple will be extending their term as council members for another five years.

CFC FFL is an organization of faithful committed to the work of evangelization and family life renewal

It envisions for restoration, perpetuation and intensification of the true Couples for Christ charism that is focused on “evangelization and family life renewal.” (Kate Laceda of CBCP News)

Rebuilding Philippines as a Christian Civilization through the Ten Commandments

The laws of a country must be based on Truth. “What is Truth?” Pilate asked Christ. Christ is the Truth, for he said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” So great a claim is backed by signs that prove his divinity, and the greatest of these is the Sign of Jonah: the Resurrection of Christ from the dead. If the Resurrection never happened, then Christ is a false prophet and Christianity is a false religion. And the twelve apostles–these twelve cowards, most of them only fishermen–will just remain in the upper room, hiding, for fear of the Jews. But the Resurrection did happen. And the apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit, went to preach to the whole world, baptizing new converts, and suffered martyrdom in the name of Christ.

But there are many groups calling themselves Christians, each group offering its own interpretation of what God has revealed as written in the Bible. One group says contraception, abortion, and divorce is okay. Another group says they are not. So on what branch of Christianity must be laws of a country be based? The laws of a country must be based on firm ground. If something is taught to be true years and centuries ago, the same teaching must still be taught as true today until the world ends. Contraception, abortion, and divorce cannot be wrong in the first centuries of Christianity but can be true now, as what Protestants in the US now claim. This is impossible Truth is timeless. Is there a group of Christians whose truths remain immutable in time? Yes, there is: it is the Catholic Church. Therefore, the laws of a country must be based on the teachings of the Catholic Church. The ideal country is a Catholic State. The ideal country is the City of God.

The Liberals rebel against union of the God and the State. What they want is to build a City Without God, a City of Man. They want to make a city that rises to the sky, piercing the clouds to very abode of God, as the men of the Babel did. They want to make a Paradise of universal brotherhood of men without the Fatherhood of God. We have seen these Utopias in the last century in the form of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism. They all failed. Nature abhors the vacuum. If you remove the God from the State, a demonic spirit will find it empty and swept clean. He will live in it and he will invite seven other demons to live with him: Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, Sloth. And the state of the State will be more terrible than the first. If you want an example, look to the West.

What is the law of Christ? The law of Christ is the commandment of Love: “Love one another as I have loved you.” Christ is our model on how to love our neighbor. “I solemnly assure you, whatever you have done to the least of my brothers, you have done it to me.” We must love our neighbor because we love Christ.

Christ’s law of love is the essence and perfection of the Ten Commandments:

1. I am the Lord your God.  You shall not have strange gods before me.
2. You shall not speak the name of the Lord your God in vain.
3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
4. Honor your father and your mother.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.

These laws must be the basis of the laws of our country.  They must be enshrined in our courtrooms, unlike in the US where they are now forbidden.  If we want a more detailed analysis of these laws, we must read the Catechism.  There you shall find all concepts that the Catholic Church has compiled in her two thousand years of thinking about the Ten Commandments:

1. Doubt, Heresy, Apostasy, Schism, Despair, Presumption, Indifference, Hatred of God, Superstition, Idolatry, Divination and Magic, Irreligion, Atheism, Agnosticism
2. Blasphemy, Perjury
3. Sunday Rest
4. Respect for Parents and Authority
5. Legitimate Defense, Homicide, Abortion, Euthanasia, Suicide, Scandal, Drug Addiction, Experimentation on Humans, Organ Transplants, Kidnapping, Hostage Taking, Terrorism, Sterilizations, Amputations, Mutilations, Cremation, Anger, Hatred, Just War, National Defense
6. Chastity, Lust, Masturbation, Fornication, Pornography, Prostitution, Rape, Homosexuality, Conjugal Fidelity, Fecundity of Marriage, Periodic Continence, Contraception, Gift of Child, Large Families, Adultery, Divorce, Separation, Polygamy, Incest, Free Union, Trial Marriage
7. Private Property, Universal Destination of Goods, Theft, Promises, Contracts, Commutative Justice, Legal Justice, Distributive Justice, Restitution, Games of Chance, Slavery, Integrity of Creation, Economic Activity, Social Justice, Economic Initiative, Responsibility of the State, Business Enterprises, Access to Employment, Just Wage, Strike, Social Security Contributions, Unemployment, Rich Nations, Direct Aid, Full Development of Human Society, Lay Faithful, Works of Mercy, Human Misery
8. Witnesses to the Gospel, Martyrdom, False Witness, Perjury, Rash Judgment, Detraction, Calmny, Flattery, Adulation, Complaisance, Boasting, Irony, Lie, Duty of Reparation, Request for Information, Secret of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Professional Secrets, Civil Authorities, Sacred Art
9. Concupiscence, Modesty, Purification of Social Climate, Moral Permissiveness
10. Envy, Poverty of the Heart

These are a mouthful.  Volumes of Books have been written about them by the Catholic Church.  Many laws were made based on them by Catholic States and Monarchies.  The Ten Commandments is the prescription for the happiness of man while he is still on earth, and the prescription for gaining heaven in the next life.  The Ten Commandments should, therefore, come before the Constitution of the State.  The Ten Commandments should be the basis of the laws of the State.  This is the yoke of Christ.  The State must govern under the yoke of Christ.  Christ promised:

Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light. (Mt 11:28-30)

If men refuse to the yoke of Christ, the wooden yoke of the cross, God will give them the yoke of Muhammad, iron yoke of the crescent (c.f. Jer 28:13). And this is what happened to Europe. They removed God and Christianity from their constitution and they ended up inundated by waves of Islamic colonization.  The Muslims refuse to integrate because they obey a different law, the Shariah law.  Europe is now dotted by mosques.  Arabic is now spoken in many European enclaves.  Women wear veils.  And the clerics preach hatred against the Christians and Jews.  In 2050, because of Europeans low birthrate after decades of contraception and abortion, Christian Europe shall be forgotten and the continent shall be called Eurabia.  As foretold by the Prophet Jeremiah:

Beware, I will bring against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, says the LORD; A long-lived nation, an ancient nation, a people whose language you know not, whose speech you cannot understand. Their quivers are like open graves; all of them are warriors. They will devour your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and your daughters, Devour your sheep and cattle, devour your vines and fig trees; They will beat flat with the sword the fortified city in which you trust. Yet even in those days, says the LORD, I will not wholly destroy you. (Jer 5:15-18)

To Philippine Congress: Seven reasons why the Reproductive Health Bill (HB 5043) must not become a law

We strongly oppose the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill (HB5043) for the following reasons:

1. AS EMPLOYERS, we do not want to be compelled to provide free reproductive health care services, supplies, devices and surgical procedures (including vasectomy and ligation) to our employees, and be subjected to both imprisonment and/or a fine, for every time that we fail to comply. (Section 17 states that employers shall provide for free delivery of reproductive health care services, supplies and devices to all workers more particularly women workers. (Definition of Reproductive Health and Rights Section 4, paragraph g, Section 21, Paragraph c and Section 22 on Penalties)
2. AS HEALTH CARE SERVICE PROVIDERS, we do not want to be subjected to imprisonment and/or a fine, if we fail to provide reproductive health care services such as giving information on family planning methods and providing services like ligation and vasectomy, regardless of the patient’s civil status, gender, religion or age ( Section 21 on Prohibited Acts, Letter a, Paragraphs 1 to 5 and Section 22 on Penalties)
3. AS SPOUSES, we do not agree that our husband or wife can undergo a ligation or vasectomy without our consent or knowledge. (Section 21 on Prohibited Acts, Letter a, Paragraph 2)
4. AS PARENTS, we do not agree that children from age 10 to 17 should be taught their sexual rights and the means to have a satisfying and “safe” sex life as part of their school curriculum. (Section 12 on Reproductive Health Education and Section 4 Definition of Family Planning and Productive Health, Paragraph b, c and d)
5. AS CITIZENS, we do not want to be subjected to imprisonment and/or pay a fine, for expressing an opinion against any provision of this law, if such expression of opinion is interpreted as constituting “malicious disinformation” ( Section 21 on Prohibited Acts, Paragraph f and Section 22 on Penalties)
6. We also oppose other provisions such as losing our parental authority over a minor child who was raped and found pregnant (Section 21, a, no.3) 7. We also do not agree to the provision which reclassifies contraceptives as essential medicines (Section 10) and appropriating limited government funds to reproductive services instead of basic services (Section 23) Thus, we urge you to immediately stop deliberations on the bill and stop wasting taxpayers money

Source: This was posted by James Bardos in apologia-ph yahoo group.