When Pope Francis took the President of the Philippines, he supported him. Now favorable

“I do not think that in my wildest I do not think it would happen,” said Cardinal Pablo Virgilo David, the day he knows that he was appointed cardinal.

He spoke to the BBC in the Cathedral in Caloocan on the edge of the Philippine capital Manila. When choosing the next Pope, he left the next day to join the exclusion from three cardinals from the country.

“Normally, you would expect that archbishops will be cardinals, but I am a little dioxide you know that most of the most people are the poor people of the city.

“But I thought it was probably more cardinals based on the Pope Francis, really based on there.”

Cardinal David is only five months after surprise height in December. However, in some cases, it applies the heritage of late Pontoni in his country.

Pope Francis himself set a catholic church that he approached the people, approaching the people and lost his partner touch.

“APU Ambo”, as Cardinal David betrayed the people of the crowd, this mission holds a campaign for poor and marginalized.

The largest Roman Catholic population in Asia in the Philippines is about 80% of 100 million people and the third largest in the world.

The Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is a reason believing that it is a papa canile or francis to replace the Pope – Tagle also spoke as an opponent in the last papal enclave.

The Roman Catholic Church, where faith in the country is strong, is considered a bright place for the rituals of society.

Yet the church faces the headlines there. Divorce and family planning training is challenged by politicians and becomes newer charismatic churches.

Pope Francis helped to restore the mood in the Philippine Church, although he did not respond to these difficulties in the fact that the variety of variety and the clergy would be more sensitive to the needs of the poor.

However, the protest wing of the church felt that he encouraged his support.

When Cardinal Faced with the largest test for David, in 2016, former President Rodrigo DutyTerme was critical when he faced his biggest test during the drugs announced.

He took a 17-year-old boy from the detachment of the police in August 2017, to see the plaque established by the Cathedral in memory of Kian Delos Santos.

Kian was only one of thousands of people who lost their lives in Dutyte’s campaign – estimates vary between 6,300 and 30,000. What is different from most of the majority of what was contradicted to the reasoning and arrest of ordinary police, witnesses and security camera videos.

Police killed his life as he begs his life. Three officers finally convicted of an unique report in the drug war.

Cardinal, a majority of low-income neighborhoods, who are still targeted by hundreds of murders in heroes, and the raids “beat and paste” against the territories, or drug dealers and users.

“It saw dead objects left and right,” said Cardinal David.

“And you know that when they think of people, why do you know why this is the target, why you know why this people will be.

Police began to offer the good news to people in the hit lists and then drug rehabilitation programs.

He also did something that he did something in a period of several months: He openly criticized the drug war illegally and immorally.

As a result, many death threats. President Dutyte accused him of taking drugs and he spoke of cheating. The government also gave the accusations against this, although they fell.

In those difficulties, Cardinal David found that he was a strong support in Rome.

During the visit to the city in 2019, Pope Francis said he asked him to stay in his diocese and safe stay in his diocese and give him a special blessing.

When he met again in 2023 and he was still alive, he laughed that the Pope was laughing and He said: “You have not called to martyrs.”

The role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines has changed during the 500-year history in the archipelago.

Spanish conquest, de facto Colonial managers and became a major owner of the church. In 1898, the political impact of the Catholic clergy was extinct when the colonial ruler of Spain was replaced by Spain in 1898.

However, the church maintains the statements of the majority of the population; Even today, about 80% of the Philippines are determined as Roman Catholics after the road prepared by the CHRISTATATIC Protestant Churches.

In 1946, since independence, the church has a disturbing relationship. Deep roots and structure status needs its support to protect the interests of a reputable player, full of political fractions.

Relations began to change in the 1970s and 1970s, a young Pablo David and today many other high-level church figures read to enter the priesthood.

This was the period of “theology of Freedom”, which was released from Latin America, and he claimed that the surroundings were the duty of the clergy to fight the pervasive poverty and injustice.

President Marcos, the father of the current President of the Philippines, announced the law in 1972 and began to arrest and kill critics, and some priests went underground to join the armed resistance.

However, the church hierarchy continued the things he called “Critical Cooperation” with Marcos Dictatorship.

In February 1986, Manila called the sin of Manil, Cardinal Jaime, and called on people to go to the streets and opposed Markosa, the President opposed the famous “People People” poles.

Cardinal Sin, in 2001, another Beleaguered President, another Beleaguered President, Czozef Estrada canceled.

After that, the church leaders are accused of increasing the growing political and social pressure to ensure family planning and divorce, although GRI is accused of supporting Macapagal Arroyo

And President Dutyterte did not want to condemn the drug war, because despite the value of human use, at least the poorest areas of the murders remained far away.

As about 40 years after the role of the Pivotal role in overthrowing Marcos mode, as a century ago, the church’s effects appear to go out again.

For example, the succession opposition of the church could not prevent the planning of the families that easily obtained the 2012 reproductive health legislation of the 2002.

This applies to a sociologist Jayeelo, who wrote a wide range of Catholicism in the Philippines, although many Philippine Catholics remain conservative on issues such as gender and divorce.

The defeat of the church’s family planning is the indicator of the decreased leap over national policy.

“The Catholic Church was practically outside the presidency of DutyTeTe. Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ s President fled in 2022, many Catholic leaders and bodies opposed the opposition. However, Marcos still won.”

Many philippines are greeted by the appearance of Cardinal David, including this.

“This is not the case of the church to manage, which is not a business to handle a church,” he said.

“But we can complete each other – I can’t say that we will not say that it will be a leader as a moral and spiritual leader, as we follow our role, even political and economic issues.”

Even a more limited view of the role of the church, although he fled to the opposition.

Thirteen years later, according to the Reproductive Health Bill, the Philippine Congress is now trying to take a bill that will legitimate divorce, if he does not agree with another church.

“I do not expect them to change their official doctrine, but in my work as a deputy, I try to solve the problems facing the Philippines and are against our constitution to interfere in my work.

An experienced Catholic, it lends a loan to Pope Francis by creating a more pleasant environment for LGBTQ + people.

“Now no one is wrong with me in a church,” he says.

However, he is a lobbying Catholic Church against the divorce bill that will release thousands of Philippians who trapped in legitimate marriages.

“The church is free to force the Catholics to glue in marriage. But in the end, this decision collided in the church.”

Other difficulties include an increasingly eliminated meeting. Although the number of Roman Catholics fell slightly in the last three decades, the number of mass participants in the week was slightly fell a little in a three-third of the recent years.

Then there are different scandals related to the Catholic Church, especially the minors have sexual exploitation, which did not suffice when resolving the issue.

Cardinal David, a book “The altar altar of the secrets”, “OH, do not say what they did not listen to these hypocrites” and “do not say what they are.

However, it is not the way the supplements can undo the reliability of the church.

“Must be modest. As Pope Francis recommends, you dare to be sensitive. Dare to be criticized. Show people, show you the mankind.”