Philippines
‘A widow challenging a Marcos anew’: new CBCP head draws parallels in history
By: John Eric Mendoza – Reporter / @JEMendozaINQ
INQUIRER.net / 06:00 PM December 02, 2021
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MANILA, Philippines — Newly-installed Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Bishop Pablo Virgilio David on Wednesday drew parallels between historic events in 1986 and now, when two widows faced what appeared to be insurmountable foes of their time, and both of the same appellation — Marcos.
Speaking before students of the Holy Angel University in Angeles City, Pampanga, where he was conferred an honorary doctorate degree for humanities (honoris causa), David warned that the public must not be “seduced by troll propaganda” that urge the Filipino people to move on from the atrocities committed during the Marcos regime.
“There is no sense in looking back to the past, except to understand who we are in the present, why we are who we are, why we behave the way we do. There is something very wrong about the attitude of escapism that is becoming prevalent today, especially among fellow Filipinos who are seduced by troll propaganda in the social media, those who say ‘The past is past. Let us just forget it and move on or move forward,’” he said.
“It is a good idea but it is wrong. Who wants to get stuck in the past anyway? It is precisely because we do not want our past mistakes to keep repeating themselves that we need to refresh the past properly in our memory,” he added.
tally forgetting about it and moving on would allow the “ghost of the past (to) continue to haunt us in the present.”
“We remain in that dark and perpetual state of victimhood that deprives us of a future, because we do not know how to review the past in a manner that lights up our path in the present for the future,” he further said.
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