“Leadership by example ang kailangan ng bansa at hindi ang lider na pumapatay at babaero”-CBCP
Naglabas ng pahayag ang Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) matapos mag-trending ang naging pahayag kahapon ni Presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte sa pagbisita sa bansa ni Pope Francis.
Sa pahayag, sinabi ni CBCP President Archbishop Socrates Villegas na magkahalong kalungkutan at kahihiyan ang kaniyang naramdaman nang murahin ni Duterte ang Santo Papa na sinundan pa ng tawanan ng mga supporters ng alkalde.“When a revered and loved and admired man like Pope Francis is cursed by a political candidate and the audience laugh, I can only bow my head and grieve in great shame. My countrymen has gone to the dregs.,” sinabi ni Villegas.
Ayon kay Villegas, ang kailangan ngayon ng Pilipinas ay isang ‘leadership by example’.
Ang lider aniya na kailangang piliin ng tao para mailulok sa pamahalaan ay dapat viosioneary at exemplary o nararapat tularan.
Dagdag pa ni Villegas, ang pagpatay ay krimen at kasalanan, gawa man ito ng criminal o ng public official.
Maging ang adultery aniya ay maari ding ituring na corruption. “Adultery corrupts the family; it destroys children and victimizes the weak,” sinabi ni Villegas.
Ipinunto ni Villegas na ang pagiging bulgar o kawalang respeto ay maituturing ding korapsyon.
Sa huli tinanong ni Villegas ang publiko kung ang ipinakikita ba ni Duterte sa ngayon ay maitituring na ‘leadership by example’?
Narito ang kabuuang statement ng CBCP sa wikang Ingles:
MAYOR DUTERTE?
What the world desperately needs now is leadership by example. We have so many leaders in office and many more aspiring to sit in office but are they examples of good citizenship? If the leaders we choose are to be leaders for national progress they must be visionaries AND exemplary.
Corruption is indeed a great scourge of Philippine politics.
The usual face of corruption that we recognize easily is stealing from public funds. Corruption, like a monster, is a devil with many faces. Killing people is corruption. Killing is a crime and a sin whether it is done by criminals or public officials no matter what the intention. Adultery is corruption. It makes married love cheap and uses people for pleasure. Adultery corrupts the family; it destroys children and victimizes the weak. Vulgarity is corruption. When we find vulgarity funny, we have really become beastly and barbaric as a people. When a revered and loved and admired man like Pope Francis is cursed by a political candidate and the audience laugh, I can only bow my head and grieve in great shame. My countrymen has gone to the dregs.
Is this the leadership by example that Mayor Duterte excites in us? Is this the leadership by example that makes a public official deserving of the title “Honorable”? I grieve for my country….!
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