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Divorce and Marriage

Despite the majority of Roman Catholic Christians in the Philippines, Christianity alone has proven incapable of unifying in certain issues the minds of the Filipinos. Our recent elections alone stood as a stark testimony on the incompatibility of what most of the citizenry prefer their next president to be and what the Roman Catholic clergy, as far as their official positions were concerned, chose the "preferred" candidate. While the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) favored the candidacy of Olongapo City Councilor JC De Los Reyes, the Filipinos gave Liberal Party standard-bearer Benigno S. Aquino III an overwhelming mandate, better than any presidential candidate of the country in history. One issue that created such opposing convictions was divorce in the Philippines. Well, the official position of the leadership in the Christian community is against putting into law any semblance of divorce in the country. But if you will ask Filipinos, you can hear a