{"id":168443,"date":"2018-07-01T01:21:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T05:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=168443"},"modified":"2018-07-01T01:21:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T05:21:23","slug":"catholic-leaders-open-to-duterte-cbcp-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/01\/catholic-leaders-open-to-duterte-cbcp-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic leaders open to Duterte-CBCP dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_168444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168444\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/10184347306_3c835d2b3e_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168444\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/10184347306_3c835d2b3e_z.jpg\" alt=\"Catholic prelates welcomed the plan of the government to hold talks with officials of the Catholic Church, particularly the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). (Photo by Project Kisame\/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/10184347306_3c835d2b3e_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/10184347306_3c835d2b3e_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-168444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catholic prelates welcomed the plan of the government to hold talks with officials of the Catholic Church, particularly the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/projectkisame\/10184347306\/in\/photolist-gvXrCW-3KkzJ5-ebw9aw-qqJMnd-gcUtKJ-in2q6M-faUduj-gCWGyK-9BtMHR-meKKE6-8absza-fzZJmF-gxEt7u-W7ehMM-gvYKks-in3UYz-gCVF3b-GgaDnJ-SPhwc2-iCLDHD-B1s2c-pcgFR6-gt4LJC-4r2Y91-8J7Jpq-3SrSxE-sa4xC8-GhsLRs-4TLUAt-yfdjiR-4sUrLd-4qXSSp-dhrRZu-sbNKsQ-7CfEDS-grtP8Z-9Bx3Xu-6oEMRM-9Bx1Kw-qR3QeR-6GCzdx-4sPW88-6GGNyd-6GCAy6-gw24Jq-6GGHuC-5L1mNQ-av9Nxu-gw2iQS-7B2URg\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/projectkisame\/\">Project Kisame\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Catholic prelates welcomed the plan of the government to hold talks with officials of the Catholic Church, particularly the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).<\/p>\n<p>Pastor \u201cBoy\u201d Saycon, one of the members of the panel formed by President Rodrigo Duterte, said they have not talked about any particular issue during last Friday\u2019s meeting at the Apostolic Nunciature in Manila for the Pope\u2019s Day event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWala naman napag-usapan (Nothing was brought up). They\u2019re very receptive to the initiative of the President to open up the dialogue,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Saycon, other members of the panel who met with Papal Nuncio to the Philippines, Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, on Friday were Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque and Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Ernesto Abella.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the Papal Nuncio made any request, Saycon said, \u201cWala naman request (There\u2019s no request). In fact there are no preconditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very happy and glad that the bishop has welcomed the initiative of the president,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, government officials attended the event in behalf of the President, who was invited to the event.<\/p>\n<p>The panel was created amid the remarks of the Chief Executive against Catholic Church officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Catholic prelates welcomed the plan of the government to hold talks with officials of the Catholic Church, particularly the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":168444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[11083,2526,18288,13135],"class_list":["post-168443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-catholic-bishops-conference-of-the-philippines","tag-catholic-church","tag-catholic-prelates","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}