Penitents in Philippines Plan to Crucify Themselves Despite Bishops' Pleas

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I know I’ve read the same article year after year after year for as long as I’ve been reading news on the Internet, but I’ve yet to read a news article explaining how it started, or what the cultural background is behind it, or how long it’s been going on, etc.
 
midori said:
I know I’ve read the same article year after year after year…
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Same here!:eek:
To make it worse, certain anti-Catholic denominations and sects use this thing as ammo against us.
Seeing the bishops always speak out against it, its a pity the civil authorities cant do something. Surely, deliberate self-mutilation could be made an offence. To say nothing of the danger of death. 🤷
 
I wish the faithful would listen to their shepherds who have spiritual authority over them but they wont. This has become a cultural thing for them. Perhaps the Bishops should buckle down and call it a sin. 🤷
 
Sounds similar to the Buddhists who set themselves on fire and the Islamists who blow themselves up. Although probably for very different reasons, true…

Do the authorities allow them to die there? Shouldn’t they be taken down and put in the hospital as a person attempting suicide?

Is penance not something you need to be assigned by the Priest? Wouldn’t a Priest have to tell them to go crucify themselves for it to be proper pennance? Which of course they can’t do as suicide is a sin. So how can you cleanse yourself of sin by going out and doing a greater sin…
And how in the world do you crucify yourself. Physically it’d be impossible…

Oh, my head… so many questions about why people do the weird things they do…
 
midori said:
I know I’ve read the same article year after year after year for as long as I’ve been reading news on the Internet, but I’ve yet to read a news article explaining how it started, or what the cultural background is behind it, or how long it’s been going on, etc.
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I’ve read that it originally started in the 1960s as part of a theatrical presentation of the final days of Jesus. The man who played Jesus requested an actual crucifixion and it has since evolved into a radical form of penance and a superstitious ritual for good luck in what can only be described as a mass re-enactment of the original play.
 
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Do the authorities allow them to die there? Shouldn’t they be taken down and put in the hospital as a person attempting suicide?

So how can you cleanse yourself of sin by going out and doing a greater sin…
And how in the world do you crucify yourself. Physically it’d be impossible…
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Theyre crucified by "assistants" (!), and they dont intend to die. Occasionally, though, one of them dies as a result of it. If nothing else, the risk of infection…:eek:

There sure is residual paganism and superstition over there as Boney said, as well as in South America and elsewhere. 🤷
 
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