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License to kill!
The House of Representatives has given its consent for the State to kill.
We, your bishops, are overcome with grief but we are not defeated nor shall we be silenced.
In the midst of Lent we prepare to celebrate thr triumph of Life over Death, and while we grieve that the Lower House has voted for death, our faith assures us that Life will triumph.
We call on all Catholic faithful and all Filipinos who stand for life to continue the spirited opposition to the death penalty.
We urge Catholic lawyers, judges and jurists to allow the gentleness of the Gospel of Life to illumine their reading and application of the law, so that their service to society as teachers and agents of the law and of justice may bring life.
It is indeed that we may have life to the full that the Lord came into our midst.
They may have won but it does not that they are right.
Archbishop Socrates Villegas
Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan
CBCP President
