TRUTH does not expire. And the truth shall set us free, so the homily went last Sunday after the nation celebrated the People Power Revolution. As expected, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), through a long pastoral letter signed by Bishop David of Caloocan, talked profusely of martial law and how violence destroyed our Christian way of life.
The Church wanted us to "respect truth by respecting history," rather than subjecting it to revisionism with lies and propaganda. That conviction for truth led to the nonviolent overthrow of the dictator on Feb. 25, 1986. At least, that was what we were told.
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