Bishop to Aquino: Don’t disappoint Filipinos

JARO Archbishop Angel Lagdameo called on president-elect Benigno Aquino III not to disappoint the Filipinos hoping for change under his administration.

Lagdameo, former Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines president, said Aquino should deliver his campaign promises especially of eradicating corruption in the government.

“People who are corrupt must be converted and renewed,” Lagdameo said.

According to him, institutions that are corrupt and are sources of corruption, must be “demolished” and replaced by agencies that work for the common good.

It’s high time, he said, for the politicians to serve for the “common good and welfare, order and harmony of the governed, the Filipino people.”

Public servants, he said, must remember that the primary and ultimate common goal of politics is their beneficial contribution to the common good of society.

“Otherwise, they would become irrelevant and detrimental, and they would be disappointing the people,” the prelate said.

Report from CBCP News