JOHN N. SCHUMACHER, SJ The Rizal Bil of 1956 Horacio de ia Cesta and the Bishops Several drafts of a pastoral letter, written by Horacio de La Costa for the bishops in 1952, survive. De la Costa's Rizal emerges as an outstanding moral figure whose devotion to the truth made his novels a source of moral as well as social and political wisdom for Filipinos. Although subsequent Grafts show he was forced by an unknown interlocutor to temper this view, he retained an essentially positive reading of the novels. In the face of Recto’s 1956 bill imposing the novels, however, Abp. Rufino J. Santos, commissioned Fr. Jesus Cavanna to draft a new “Statement Beginning with a few positive paragraphs from De ta Costa, the “Statement” then absolutely condemned the novels and forbade their reading, a prohitition , | that proved quite ineffective. The drafts of De la Costa show that there was within the Catholic Church a totally different attitude toward Rizal, whose legacy the church could embrace. 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