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==Respect Supreme Court TRO, CBCP Urges== | |||
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/351039/respect-supreme-court-tro-cbcp-urges | |||
*http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/351039/respect-supreme-court-tro-cbcp-urges | |||
:by LESLIE ANN G. AQUINO | |||
MANILA, Philippines — The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Saturday called on everyone – particularly Malacañang, the Senate, and the prosecution panel – to respect the Supreme Court’s temporary restraining order (TRO) stopping the impeachment court from compelling the Philippine Savings Bank to disclose the foreign currency accounts of Chief Justice Renato C. Corona. | |||
“It is more academic for the Senate to respect the TRO,” Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma, CBCP president said over Church-run Radyo Veritas. | |||
“There is a law of secrecy for dollar accounts,” Palma said. | |||
Palma, however, stressed that the CBCP is not siding with anyone on the issue and it is leaving the decision to the Senate impeachment court. | |||
“We leave this matter in the hands of the senator-judges. We are not siding with anyone. The ball is now in the hands of the Senate. Let’s just trust and respect the process,” he said. | |||
Last Thursday, the Supreme Court, in an 8-5 vote, stopped the Senate from compelling the PSBank from revealing the details of Corona’s dollar bank accounts. | |||
Impeachment Splits Church Leaders | |||
But church leaders are split on whether the impeachment trial of the Chief Justice should continue. | |||
Caloocan Bishop Deogracias Iñiguez and Sorsogon Bishop Arturo Bastes said the trial in the Senate should continue. | |||
“The impeachment must be finished to get the truth,” Iñiguez said. “It must go on to find more truth about Corona,” Bastes said. | |||
Even the national director of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) favors going ahead with the trial. | |||
“We should proceed with the trial to uphold the rule of law and instill accountability to everyone,” Bishop Efraim Tendero said in a text message. | |||
“Stopping the trial will allow the accused to present his defense and let the senator-judges discharge their duty with probity,” he added. | |||
Lipa City (Batangas) Archbishop Ramon Arguelles has taken the opposite view, and wants the trial stopped “to save the country from institutional disaster.” | |||
“Many leaders should be saved from this embarrassing situation,” Arguelles said. “The charges of corruption must be done in another forum and when proven guilty, then CJ (Chief Justice) should be convicted and barred from government position for good.” | |||
All others similarly guilty, Arguelles said, must be prosecuted, jailed, and kept from further corrupt practices. | |||
He said a person who has sufficient proof should bring anyone guilty to court. | |||
“No one is above the law. This is not only for CJ. This is for any corrupt official. If such is done against CJ as an individual, there’s no way the whole judicial body will be dragged in the issue,” said Arguelles. | |||
Last Thursday, Corona’s camp asked the Supreme Court to stop the impeachment trial as it accused the Senate, sitting as the impeachment court, of grave abuse of discretion. | |||
According to the petitioners, the Senate committed grave abuse of discretion when it granted the prosecution’s motion to subpoena Corona’s bank records to the trial. | |||
They said the Supreme Court should stop the trial, pending the resolution of its request to strike down Section 2.3 of Article II of the Articles of Impeachment, which accuses Corona of not properly declaring all his assets in his Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALN). | |||
==Aquino names UP regent, MTC judges== | ==Aquino names UP regent, MTC judges== | ||
*Source: http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/nation/23071-aquino-names-up-regent-mtc-judges | *Source: http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/nation/23071-aquino-names-up-regent-mtc-judges | ||
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