yagiolaguera:

The Jesuits taught me about religion and spiritually in a much deeper and meaningful way than I’ve heard any of these secular priests have in the masses that I attended in my own parish. I was taught that faith without doubt is immature and untested. Ateneo does more for the faith by fostering Catholics who are informed about what the church is about. The CBCP has done very little to educate the masses about tenets of the Catholic Church, choosing instead to dictate what’s right or wrong and asking everyone to follow blindly and illogically.

I have a love hate relationship with the Catholic church and I had been contemplating being a more devout Catholic before the RH debacle got nasty. This was mostly because of how Ateneo made it clear to me what the faith was and what it means to be Catholic. It disappoints me how manipulative the mainstream Catholic Church can be. The Jesuits, I felt, always laid out what was there and left things for me to decide for myself. If the Jesuits were wrong in teaching me that than I’d rather not be a Catholic at all.

My parents did not send me to Ateneo mainly because it was a Catholic school. It’s quite possible that they sent me there in spite of it being a Catholic school. They sent me there because the Jesuits teach their students to think for themselves. The CBCP stresses the fact that Ateneo is a Catholic University and they must follow the tenets of the Catholic Church. They want these teachers stopped. They want the discourse to stop. What they’re forgetting is that a Catholic University is STILL a university and a university is nothing without discourse.