Bordeos, Kristine Lirose O.

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER GED0102 – Sec 6

Rizal Bill of 1956 Horacio

de la Costa and the Bishops

Horacio de la Costa Fr. Jesus Cavanna

Catholic protagonist of the “New Principal author of “Statement” and
Propaganda Movement” suspected interlocutor of de la Costa’s
drafts

He was the principal author of

According to the article, he Unknown to him of the He used De la Costa’s draft C
the 1956 “Statement of the
wrote draft pastoral letter on Cavanna’s principal in his final or definitive draft
Philippine Hierarchy of the
the novels of Rizal. authorship about the for the “Statement” as opening
novels of Dr. Jose Rizal Noli
“Statement”. paragraph.
me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo.
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The graphic organizer known the Hierachy, it can read from top to the bottom. The top is the topic or the title of the article given to us,
which is the Rizal Bill of 1956 De la Costa and the Bishops. At the second row, the two main characters who wrote pastoral letters to
the bishops, the first is De la Costa and the second is Fr. Cavanna. Under of them are the contributions and most important details they
have done when reading and criticizing the Rizal works particularly the two novels.
On the first box under De la Costa, in the marginal notes, “It appears that, at the request of a committee of the bishops, De la Costa
had drawn up a pastoral letter on the novels of Rizal…” (p. 530). On the second box, in the marginal notes, “Moreover, the Jesuit
vice-provincial was not aware of any activity of De la Costa in this matter in 1956 and wrote to him as if the appearance of the
pastoral letter and Cavanna’s principal author was entirely unknown to De la Costa” (p.531). It clearly said that while De la Costa was
abroad, Cavanna took a chance to alter the drafts that made Rizal was against the Catholic church itself. For the rest of the boxes, from
the marginal notes, “… it is still possible that Cavanna was responsible for the gradual changes that appear here, before breaking
drastically from De la Costa’s drafts” (p.531). De la Costa shows that Rizal was a very firm person that could do everything for his
country to break the evil and spill the truth. He quoted from some Rizal’s novels that he just wanted only for us to wake up from the
nightmare we experienced in the hands of the Spanish.
While, on the boxes under Fr. Cavanna was only telling that Rizal was against the freedom conscience and morals. It supported some
of my marginal notes that can found on the certain passages from the drafts, “the identity of the interlocutor does not matter for the
purpose of this article, which is to display the differing attitudes toward Rizal and his novels within the Church, most especially the
views of De la Costa as a Catholic protagonist” (p.532).