Thou shall not kill and what Padre Dámaso might have thought of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill
With Bishops being “pro-life” and the soon-to-be-excommunicated being (presumably) “pro-death,” it’s interesting to see how the Padre Dámasos of 150 years ago felt about all these. In 1865, Fr. Sebastián de Totanes, OFM, wrote Manual Tagalog para Auxilio de los Religiosos … with a 61-item checklist on the Fifth Commandment (Houag kang matay nang capoua mo tauo) to make sure confessors missed nothing.
Fray Sebastián’s questions on the Fifth are nos. 293-353, the following being of relevance to the current RH Bill debate:
