THE Masonic lodge’s planned construction of an 18-story obelisk at the heart of Dumaguete City has met strong opposition from a local Church official, who said that it was a "pagan structure."

“An obelisk is a pagan structure. Why build an 18-story masonic obelisk in front of the Cathedral?” Monsignor Gamaliel Tulabing, Diocese of Dumaguete’s judicial vicar, told the diocese-run DYWC TeleRadyo.

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