Discourse of the Catholic Church in the Philippines on the National Elections since 2009: An Analysis of CBCP Pastoral Statements

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This research note analyzes the pastoral statements of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) for the past 10 years. It also checks the validity of Rivera (2011) that statements in 2010 are fruits of the vision of CBCP’s statement in 1986 democratization about lay initiative in partisan politics, as a result of successful normalization of the democracy in the Philippines, by reframing the election discourse with two concepts as the key: “circles of discernment” of political situation and candidates, and “principled partisan politics” led by the lay faithful. It concludes that in spite of the continued acceptance of these concepts in 10 years, clergies may have been tempted to be involved deeper in politics, because the church-state relations are far from normalized.

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  • 言語文化研究

    言語文化研究 49 225-243, 2023-03-31

    Division of Language and Culture／Division of Foreign Studies／Department of Applied Japanese Studies, Division of Japanese Studies Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University

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