{"id":5363,"date":"2018-12-24T05:36:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2018-12-24T05:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T18:36:11","slug":"bishop-our-country-is-being-led-by-a-very-sick-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5363","title":{"rendered":"Bishop: \u2018Our country is being led by a very sick man\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David has asked the public to pray for President Rodrigo Duterte, whom he described as a \u201cvery sick man.\u201d<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease remember, Jesus taught us to be merciful when dealing with sick people,\u201d the bishop said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it should [be] obvious to people by now that our country is being led by a very sick man. We pray for him. We pray for our country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop David was reacting to a comment made by the President where he mocked the Catholic celebration of All Saints\u2019 Day and All Souls\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte mocks Filipinos\u2019 celebration of All Saints Day<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy All Saints\u2019\u2026Bakit naman\u2026tarantado talaga itong mga Katoliko ang puta, bakit ba may All Souls\u2019 Day at All Saints\u2019 Day?\u201d Duterte said during a conference last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHindi natin alam kung sino mga santo na \u2018yun. Mga gago na iyon, mga lasenggo. Dito na lang kayo. I\u2019ll give you a patron. Get hold of a picture of mine, iyan lagay ninyo sa altar, Santo Rodrigo,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the President\u2019s mocking, the bishop said calling saints as fools and drunkards are \u201cnothing new.\u201d He said even Jesus was called a \u201cglutton and a drunkard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing new about our saints being called \u2018fools and drunkards.\u2019 St. John the Baptist was even called \u2018devil-possessed.\u2019 Jesus himself was called a \u2018glutton and a drunkard,\u2019 a \u2018friend of tax collectors\u2019 and sinners,\u201d David said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe apostles at Pentecost were also called \u2018drunkards.\u2019 To be a Christian is to be ready to be branded as a fool for Christ,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David has asked the public to pray for President Rodrigo Duterte, whom he described as a \u201cvery sick man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,52,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}