‘He’s a bad talker, but he’s a good doer,’ Vancouver’s Mary-Ann Pasicolan says about Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte.
Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, appears constantly on the 24-hour TV news channels playing in Filipino restaurants in Metro Vancouver.
Duterte has been making life complicated for Canada’s Filipino Catholics, who regularly engage in hushed conversations about the nationalist leader. Meanwhile, local Catholic officials tread cautiously — not wanting to disturb his many admirers. Pasicolan is also an usher at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, which is a block away from the restaurant and holds seven masses each Sunday to meet the needs of its congregation, which is 95 per cent Filipino.
While Pasicolan thinks Duterte should respect the “separation of church and state,” she is especially disturbed by his constant use of profanity. She grimaces when she hears his “bad mouth.” That said, Alcuitus appreciated it when one or two bishops in the Philippines began speaking out against Duterte’s “total war” on drugs after they noticed most people being gunned down were from the poorest neighbourhoods.
Filipino Catholics can stay quiet, believing ‘their day will come.’Why is Duterte so hostile to the Catholic church? As for Duterte’s Christian-bashing, Alcuitus points out inconsistencies. The president doesn’t attack influential evangelical Protestant churches in the Philippines — such as Iglesia Ni Cristo, which has 70 congregations in Canada, including a giant sanctuary on Marine Way in Burnaby. Duterte recently appointed Iglesia Ni Cristo’s leader, Eduardo Manelo, a special envoy for overseas concerns.
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