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These specific mandates of the law became the source of numerous debates. As a general rule, before a bill becomes a law, it has to pass three separate readings. However, upon its second reading, the bill was further scrutinized, debated and argued upon. The intense debate between its proponents and opponents became a hot topic. The Rizal Law, therefore, became one of the controversial bills in Philippine history The bill was first authored by Senator Claro M. Recto while Senator Jose P. Laurel, Sr. sponsored the bill in the Senate. However, the bill sparked numerous debates in the Senate that revolved around the separation of church and state issues. This primarily focused on Section 2 of the law stating that students should read the "unexpurgated editions" of the novels. Meaning, the novel should be read its unedited, complete, and uncensored version. Further, the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo raised multiple issues coming from the Catholic Church on the clear separation between the Church and the state In the statement released by the Catholic Bishops Conference in the Philippines (CBCP) last April 21, 1956, signed by Father Rufino J. Santos, D.D. they cited several violations of the novels on the free exercise of religion that in turn would seriously injure the Catholic faith and its believers ("Statement of the Philippine Hierarchy on the Novels of Dr. Jose Rizal | CBCP Online" 1956). The following contentions were raised by CBCP: ### Statement of the Philippine Hierarchy on the Novels of Dr. Jose Rizal ### Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo Among the many illustrious Filipinos who have distinguished themselves in the service of their country, the highest place of honor belongs to Dr. Jose Rizal. And justly so; for Rizal possessed to an eminent degree those virtues which together make up true patriotism. He loved his country not in word alone but in deed. He devoted his time, his energies and the resources of his brilliant mind to dispelling the ignorance and apathy of his people and combating the injustices and inequalities under which they labored. When these salutary activities fell under the suspicion of the colonial government and he was condemned to death as a rebel, he generously offered his blood for the welfare of his country. But although his love for his country was great, it was not a blind, unreflecting love. It was not the inordinate love which so often passes for patriotism, whereby one regards one's native country as perfect beyond criticism, and attributes all its ills to the tyranny and greed of strangers. Rizal's balance of judgment saved him from this pernicious error. He clearly saw and boldly proclaimed the fact that while the Filipino people suffered from colonial rule, they were as much the victims of their own vices and detects. In dedicating his novel, Noli Me Tangere, to his beloved country, he addressed her as follows: Desiring your health which IS also ours, and seeking the best means of restoring it, I shall do with you what the ancients did with their sick; they brought them to the steps of the temple that all who came to invoke the god might stop to suggest a remedy. I shall ### Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Course RA 1425 Lift a portion of the bandage which hides the disease, sacrificing all to the trash, even my personal pride, for as a son of yours am not exempt from your defects and weaknesses. Thus, while Rosal was fearless in denouncing the evils of the colonial administration of his time, he was no less fearless in pointing out to his countrymen "our own mistakes, our own vices, our supine and culpable acquiescence to these evils." It will not be out of place in this connection suggest that the affectionate with which Rizal regarded his country and his people should characterize our own attitude towards Rosal himself. The fact that he is our national hero by no means obliges us to approve of all that be said or did As one of our most illustrious senators said on the floor of the Senate a few days ago: "I do not say that Rosal did not make any intake, did not commit any error in judgment or in the appreciation or in the presentation of facts or in the criticism which he had land You can always find passages in bis works that are perhaps objectionable. And if I were to be given time and opportunity to discuss page by page these different passages I could say that I will as differ transy statements which he made." We believe that those who try to make Rosal out as a paragon of all virtues with uman failings do him a great disservice; for by departing enly succceed in casting doubt very real and truly great qualities which he did possess. Let us therefore by all means hosor Rizal, bat for the right reasons first of all, for his anselfish devotion to his country, and secondly, for that with which he examined and analyzed our national problems. Rising above petty passion and prejudices, he did from the concreteness of his time ideas regarding the function of government, the well being of society, the dignity of the individual, the necemcity of popular education, the native traits and possibilities of because of their universal and timeless validity, are applicable even in our own times. Would that leaders of today and our people as a whole put in practice more faithfully the patriotic teachings contained in the writings of maral hero But men cannot put ins practice teachings with which they have bat night anaintance which not thoroughly and rightly understand. Hence, we capprove and applied in principle the desire of many that the writings of Rosal circulated even introduced as reading matter public and private schools of the think of no more effective means, of the civic virtue, so neceary so our times of subordinating individual ambitions to the common good. Nevertheless, this respect and esteem for Rizal and his work, we ought follow te the love he and for his country We need not be blind to his enors. He had human like while showed great wada returning to the true Faith before he died cannot from that show that he himself, in conscience, in the face of death, statements Some of Rizal's insights into the political and social order are contained in his Noli Me Tangere and Filibusterismo Certainly hero wrate inspired ### 8 The Life and Works of Jose Rizal country whose "dear image presenting cancer", which to the hope of the public In justice they at variance applications of Catholic The be arrayd is called Hence it fellows objectives that also between aims accordance with the may be love of country are woudge righty of country are twin the name We may that the the the society the freedom of the Gospel that can be won Now, according to himself, the of which then ated Philippine society this cancer was the part of to be Did only the of but contradict Catholic to in Paris attack upon in the be that the saying I wich to through They #### Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Course RA 1425 9 Of that shield in order to wound the enemy that was hiding behind it." The interpretation, then, of Dr. Tavera was not exact, according to Rizal himself. He did attack the shield, that is, not only the superstitions which sometimes, due to ignorance, creep into religious practices, but the ritual itself of the Church, which are sacred acts of Catholic worship. And he acknowledged the at the end when he wrote: "I retract with all my heart whatever in my works, writings, publications and conduct has been trary to my status as a son of the Catholic Church." Furthermore, there passages not anymore the author himself who speaks. And among these passages, there are many which are derogatory Catholic beliefs practices as such, aside the ed up priests. In novels passages against Catholic dogma and morals where repeated against Catholic religion in general, against doctrine of Purgatory, against Sacrament of Baptism, Communion, Holy Mass, against the doctrine of prayers, Christian piety are passages casting doubts oning with the most blessed the Christ the Similarly, we the saints, the the use the Even prayers are included, sach at the Our Father, the Hail the the of Mass the Sunday escape scor We find that of the that establish by undermine to to in by not all some is of we that in that by to ##### 10 The Life and Works of Jose Rizal. in question. This does not mean, however, that each and every portion of the novels falls under this law Those portions which do not contradict the tenets and practices of the Catholic faith are evidently not affected by the law This being the fact, to make the novels in question compulsory reading matter in our schools, as proposed in the Senate Bill No. 438, is tantamount to forcing those who are interested in being more Therefore, statements against the Church contained in the novels ##### Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Course RA 1425 be enacted by Catholic legislators) the minds of our youth with ideas which are inimical to their religion Religious conscience is formed by one's belief in and adherence to the teachings and the laws of one Catholic conscience, then is guided by Catholic teachings and the laws of the Catholic Church aware that in our country, there are many baptized Catholics for whom Catholic teachings and laws have little But on the millions of Filipinos, that attack churches while the church the guide what for their that at the end" will or for of to the to 1. 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