Emmy Flor M.

Valmoria BSN99-B GE-RIZAL101

1.Republic Act 1425 is not considered a victory for the catholic church. It was a loss for
them. Senator Cairo M. Recto proposed that all schools in the Philippines should teach
the life and work of Jose Rizal. In 1956, the bill was enacted into law, and it was called
the Rizal Law. When the catholic church found out that they wanted to make the bill,
they mobilized all the power they had to prevent that from happening. The church still
viewed the Publication of Noli Me Tangare as blasphemous even 70 years after
publication. Archbishop Rufino Santos wrote a passionate pastoral letter protesting the
bill read in all masses countrywide (Magpantay et al., 2020). It is alleged that Mayor
Arsenio Lacson walked out of mass when the letter was being read. He was a big and
vocal supporter of the bill. The church argued that reading of the original novels of Rizal
would have a negative effect on the student. The church painted Recto as anti-Catholic
and communist.

2. If Rizal bill was to be proposed today it would be facing a lot of opposition. Times
have changed and we now live in an age dominated by technology, revolution, scientific
breakthrough, environmental crisis, and even national catastrophe. Learning about the
life of Rizal would have been seen as a waste of time because there would be too many
destructions and real problems (Grecalda,2021). Not only the church will be against it
but the schools too because there are other important issues to be taught about such as
climate change which need solutions to be found. People would not see  the essence of
the bill and it would be irrelevant because people do not even know who Rizal was.
Only a small number of the population who might have read the book would know who
he was. The youth would be the main opposes of the bill because they would not be
interested. They are interested In TV shows and social media so bringing this bill would
be seen as a violation to them.