David on Friday said Mr. Duterte may have confused him with someone else when he alleged that a certain Bishop David was taking Church donations for personal use, something that the bishop stressed he would not do especially since his parents never taught him to steal. While Mr. Duterte did not give the full name of the prelate he was accusing, the Caloocan bishop pointed out that he was the only Bishop David in the current roster of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). Drug war criticIn the CBCP’s directory of its bishops, there is actually another bishop named David—Auxiliary Bishop David William Antonio of Occidental Mindoro. Like in previous speeches, Mr. Duterte aired his skepticism toward Catholic tenets, like the concept of heaven and hell, which he considered a form of “discrimination.”‘Catch up with me’“Why discrimination? Mr. Duterte has met with Davao Archbishop Romulo Valles, the president of the CBCP, and promised to stop his attacks against the Church.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 23, 2018 21:33 UTC