Search Books

Altar of Secrets: Sex, Politics, and Money in the Philippine Catholic Church

Author Aries Rufo
Publisher Journalism for Nation Building Foundation
📄 Viewing lite version Full site ›
🌎 Shop on Amazon — choose country
⌛ 🇫🇷 France pricing being fetched… Prices will appear once fetched — usually within a few minutes.
Share:
Book Details
Author(s)Aries Rufo
ISBN / ASINB00DDTR4FE
ISBN-13978B00DDTR4F8
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷

Description

Altar of Secrets: Sex, Politics, and Money in the Philippine Catholic Church is the first of its kind in the country.

Journalist Aries C. Rufo shows a Church that is cloaked in secrecy. It keeps the wrongdoing of its bishops and priests - in sexual misconduct and financial mismanagement - within its confines and lets them get away, unpunished.

Accountability, after all, is not a strong suit of the church. Rufo also delves into how the church influences policy, as nowhere among Catholic countries in the world is the Church deeply involved in the shaping of policy than in the Philippines.

Overall, reforms are taking place, but these are highly dependent on the Church leaders, the bishops who try to change mindsets and systems.