MANILA, Philippines—The P10-billion pork barrel scam indicates the breakdown of the Filipinos' moral fiber as a Christian nation as well as the failure of Church leaders to teach and take fresh new steps to restore morality in public and private life, according to the incoming president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). In a letter to the clergy, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas on Friday said the anger spawned by the corruption scandal should also lead the men of the cloth to reflect and act. "We cannot afford to be known as a Church of denunciations and prohibitions. As we denounce evil and sin, we must, in the...
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