MAYBE President Duterte was sweeping and
vague when last March 30, going into Lent, he said the Catholic Church
would be irrelevant in 30 years.
He used the word “passe” but that didn’t tell what he exactly meant.
“Passe” may just mean “outdated” or “old-fashioned.” And what are the
benchmarks of irrelevance?
What he meant
Did Duterte refer to a collapse of the church, not just in the
Philippines but worldwide with its 1.2 billion members fleeing to other
religions or abandoning faith altogether?
