Government official: be God-fearing, not bishop-fearing

[cho_pilo]

Keeping mum was the response of several bishops to a call for them to confess that they were gifted with Mitsubishi Pajeros from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) during the Arroyo administration.

Those who have issued denials were bishops who did not get a vehicle from the charity agency.

Senator Panfilo Lacson on Wednesday said he and Senator Teofisto Guingona III had obtained documents showing that four bishops and several congressmen benefited from PCSO funds.

Lacson said the documents showed that the bishops received Pajeros while the congressmen got allocations from the charity agency.

Lacson declined to name the bishops and the lawmakers, who he said were allied with then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, now a Pampanga representative, until the documents were certified by the PCSO and the Commission on Audit (COA).

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Any thoughts from Catholics?

 

[St_Francis]

I don’t know how widespread this is, but in the US, charities are allowed to put on gambling events like bingo for charitable purposes. So I think that under certain circumstances, I think it’s ok for churches to “accept money from gambling.”

But this sounds like a different issue. Apparently the gambling organization is a government organization, and government organizations are not permitted to give “contributions” to religious organizations, so accepting the c ars seems to have been illegal or close to, depending on the knowledge ofthe bishops. The issue is not that the cars came from a gambling organization but from a government organization.