The Rizal Bill of 1956: Examining Perspectives by Jenna Mae https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc Changes from Draft C to the "Bishops's Statement" en-us 2023-08-27 22:36:43 UTC 2023-08-29 01:49:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/2118200507/a2989a5bac1b41c4508419979edc86fc/rizal_writings_tl.webp CHANGES FROM DRAFT C TO THE BISHOP'S STATEMENT jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674326772 2023-08-27 22:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674326772 jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674328045 Priests were not seen as "bad" but more as "disedifying"]]> 2023-08-27 22:50:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674328045 The term “Spanish colonial administration” was changed into “colonial administration of his time” jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674329159 2023-08-27 22:53:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674329159 This was intended to avoid attracting attention to the Spanish religious orders. jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674329539 2023-08-27 22:54:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674329539 jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674330264 The quotation “To describe your present state without fear or favor” from Rizal’s book, Noli Me Tángere, was excluded]]> 2023-08-27 22:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674330264 jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674331645 The “moral virtues” in Draft C that contain patriotism were removed]]> 2023-08-27 23:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674331645 A "child of God" is paraphrased to "one who is adopted by our heavenly Father as a filial participant in His own exalted nature” jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674332690 2023-08-27 23:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674332690 There appears a conscious effort not to praise Rizal too highly, even where there is no question of religious matters. jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674334347 2023-08-27 23:09:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674334347 His "excellent" qualities become simply "great" jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674335124 2023-08-27 23:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674335124 His "startlingly prophetic" teachings become merely "patriotic". jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674335319 2023-08-27 23:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674335319 jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674338393 The intention of Rizal to address the abused practices of friars in Draft C was changed into attacking the Catholic church practices in the Bishop’s statement]]> 2023-08-27 23:18:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674338393 C attributed to Rizal " The First Place of honor by universal consent" it was changed to "the highest" dropping the "universal consent" jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674341260 2023-08-27 23:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674341260 The assertion that "No Filipino before or after Rizal has understood so well or so memorably expressed the political and social principles upon which the peace and prosperity of our beloved country must necessarily be based" is pointedly omitted in the Bishop's statement jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674343242 2023-08-27 23:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674343242 There is an evident desire not to grant too much importance to the novels of Rizal in the Bishop's statement even when not dealing with religious matters jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674344832 2023-08-27 23:33:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674344832 C addressed the novel as " The most valuable of Rizal's ideals in the political and social order undoubtedly contain in his two novels" jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674347966 The Bishop's statement spoke of it as "some of his most cogent insights"]]> 2023-08-27 23:38:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674347966 "Abuses in the practice of religion" was changed to "Some practices of the Catholic Religion" jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674351210 2023-08-27 23:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674351210 jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674355085 From C, "Hence a considerable portion of these novels is devoted to castigating or satirizing bad priest and superstitious observances" to the Bishop's statement, "Hence the larger part of these novel is devoted to castigating disedifying priest and to satirizing what he deemed to be superstitious observances and practices of the Church"  ]]> 2023-08-27 23:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674355085 jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674359407 Cavanna omitted a quote from Rizal's letter to Hidalgo which states that Rizal does not wish to attack the church itself but rather than the abuses and distortions of teachings]]> 2023-08-27 23:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674359407 Dela Costa suggested in C to supply the annotated version of novels be prepared by a scholar with the times while the "statement" proceeded rather to quote canon law forbidding certain types of book, under whose categories it declared the two novel fell: jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674369936 only with the permission of ecclesiastical authority -- "readily granted for justifiable reason" to those with sufficient knowledge of the Catholic doctrine]]> 2023-08-28 00:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674369936 What are the differences that exist between draft C and the Bishop's statement regarding Rizal's perspective? jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674379738 2023-08-28 00:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674379738 How do the changes made in the bishop's statement resonate with the challenges of Rizal's original intentions? jaenax0102 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674381003 The original intention of Rizal was to defend and awaken the Filipinos from the abuses of the Spaniards during their colonization through his books turned into attacking the morals and practices of the Catholic Religion. The Bishop’s statement made Rizal’s intention anti-Catholic and not patriotic since it was mentioned that 120 out of 333 pages in his book, Noli Me Tángere, was attacking the Catholic Religion while only 25 pages were about patriotism. This pastoral letter may influence the perspective of the Filipinos that Rizal is not a moral example but an anti-Catholic citizen. Wherein, the Catholic Church was afraid that Rizal might use his book as a weapon to attack them. But based on his readings, he only wanted to address the abuses such as controlling the nation and the adultery of some friars during the Spanish colonization experienced by the Filipinos.]]> 2023-08-28 00:23:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674381003 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674668952 “This comparison is not quite exact; I wished to throw the missile against the friars; but as they used the ritual and superstitions of a religion as a shield, I had to get rid of that shield in order to wound the enemy that was hiding behind it” 

But in fact, it is clear that the word “ritual” and superstitions nowhere appears in the quotation in both German and Spanish translation, and hence the argument of the “Statement” is simply false.]]> 2023-08-28 04:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674668952 vantaes002 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674731221 Nonetheless, the given changes present in the reading evidently show the different attitudes that the Catholic Church have with regards to Rizal as a national hero and not only on how to read a novel. Monopoly of the Catholic Church as the only guardian of morality is seen as well. ]]> 2023-08-28 05:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674731221 angelamaebulawit11 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674799169 In draft C, "social cancer" was "in [Rizal's] opinion, largely due to the decadent state of the religious orders and the abuses which had crept into the practice of the Catholic religion." 

The meaning was changed, where the abuses in the practice of religion Rizal opposed became not abuses but "some practices of the Catholic religion," thus laying the foundation for the latter part of the letter in which wholesale condemnations of the novels would be detailed. ]]> 2023-08-28 06:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674799169 angelamaebulawit11 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674808430 Draft C has asserted that "in so far as these novels give expression to our people's desire for political freedom and a social order based on justice, they have nothing to fear from the Catholic Church." This was replaced by the tortuous evasion that "they are not at variance with the practical applications of Catholic doctrine to the exigencies of the social milieu as it existed at the time." ]]> 2023-08-28 06:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674808430 https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674826623 Rizal's works were known to be a "sin" for those who wish to read, communicate, sell, purchase, or even translate it. The Catholic church forbid their people to have any interaction or any thought about Rizal's works due to their belief that it was going against them and their practices.]]> 2023-08-28 07:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jaenax0102/iut01w6hbjtknxmc/wish/2674826623