CBCP MAY 13 - 26, 2019, VOL 23, NO. 10
[email protected] PROTAGONIST OF TRUTH, PROMOTER OF PEACE ANALYSIS PPCRV to look ‘Vos estis’ and ‘vulnerability’ POPE Francis’ recently promulgated policy on sexual abuse allegations made against bishops, Vos into poll glitches estis lux mundi, offers a new and much expanded interpretation of what By Roy Lagarde constitutes a canonical sexual crime by a cleric. That interpretation A church-backed has raised real questions poll watchdog has about how the law is to be requested data from the applied, at the Vatican and transparency server in diocesan chanceries. The new policy of the Commission recognizes as explicitly on Elections amid criminal the abuse of glitches. authority in coercive sexual relationships, a The Parish Pastoral move called for often in Council for Responsible the wake of the Theodore Voting (PPCRV) said McCarrick scandal. It also the situation calls for offers a new definition transparency to erase doubts for “vulnerable” adults, a among the people. legal category of persons Myla Villanueva, PPCRV who could be subject to chairperson, said the data criminally coercive abuse. would help them determine The universal law of the if the data will match with Church previously defined results from the central a “vulnerable adult” as one server. who “habitually lacks the “For me as a tech person, use of reason.” what is important is to Volunteers at the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) command center in Manila continue the manual encoding of the printed election results May 15. The church-based poll watchdog has managed to mobilize around 300,000 volunteers for the May 13 midterm elections.