According to the pastoral letter of the

Catholic Bishop Conference of the

Philippines (CBCP), the Rizal bill
desecrated the Canon Law number 1399
that prohibit any books that conflicts and
mock the doctrine and practices of the
catholic church. They argued that the novel
Noli Me Tangere composed of 333 pages
but 25 of the pages are nationalistic in
nature and the rest of 120 pages was anti-
Catholic and anti-friars.
 In addition, based on the examination of the
censor of the church 170 pages of Noli Me Tangere
are highly against the catholic faith and 50 pages
of El Filibusterismo were heresy.

Rizal two Novels did not only attacks the friars or the
hierarchy of the church but the core of the catholic
faith itself.
“Recto and Laurel defended the bill and argued that
the only objective of the bill is to keep the
memory of the national hero alive in every
Filipino’s mind, to emanate Rizal as he peacefully
fought for freedom, and not to go against
religion.”
The Rizal bill faces many objections
and trials but the proponents of the
bill wisely creates some revision, the
modification of the bill is that Noli
Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo
will not anymore obligatory to read
in the basic education in elementary
and secondary students but it will be
compulsory in the college students
to study and read.
 Importance of Rizal Law
• The Philippine
Education system has
included the Life, works,
and teaching of Jose
Rizal to instill to the
youth the importance
of freedom and
nationalism
• Thru the effort of our
first National Hero
• We are also to develop
moral character,
personal discipline, civic
conscience, and to teach
the duties of citizenship,
by applying this in our
daily lives…
• The values that we
Filipinos that has been
instilled to us may be
passed on to the next
generation for the
betterment of our
country
• At the end of the day, we are Filipinos that
must be proud of the selflessness of our
National Hero, Jose Rizal for bringing us to this
moment, the people he inspired despite his
short lived life that awaken the burning desire
of freedom from our captives and up to this
day.
• The torch of freedom has passed on, for we
the Filipino people honor those who are
fallen.
1. A PROMINENT OR CENTRAL PERSONAGE TAKING AN
ADMIRABLE PART IN ANY REMARKABLE ACTION OR
EVENT.

2. A PERSON OF DISTINGUISHED VALOR, OR ENTERPRISE

IN DANGER, OR FORTITUDE IN SUFFERING.

3. A MAN HONORED AFTER DEATH BY PUBLIC WORSHIP,

BECAUSE OF EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE TO MANKIND.