AN archbishop who has been critical of the incumbent administration’s style of governance warned that democracy may die and some freedoms lost to political dynasties if the Catholic faithful would not translate their religious beliefs into votes in the midterm polls on May 13.

“When we demand that religion be purely a private matter that it should not touch political choices, society suffers. Democracy is hurt,” Archbishop Socrates Villegas said in his pastoral message for the faithful of Lingayen Dagupan on Sunday.