"THE RETRACTION

OF JOSE RIZAL"
GROUP 3 REPORTERS
WILLIAM
ESCRIBA
DIALPOLET
CASTILLION
DENOROG
According to some, Jose Rizal, who
was murdered by the Spanish
colonialists 120 years ago, December
30, 1896, became a hero because of
his writings to destroy the idea of ​
colonialism and free our minds to
build the nation—the Noli Me Tangere
and El Filibusterismo and his essays
on La Solidaridad, which questions
the beliefs that blind us, especially
following the wishes of the friars as
messengers of God
But, a few hours before he was
shot, Rizal is said to have signed a
document that says he is a
Catholic and that he retracts all
his writings against the church.
The document became known as
the retraction, “The Retraction.”
Because of his conversion to the
church, he married Josephine
Bracken, his last love.
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Rizal's so-called retraction. Courtesy Ambeth R. Ocampo
ARGUMENTS
 So why do they want to retract? well, they
wanted Rizal to retract because the
writings of Jose Rizal made a greater impact
wherein, he exposed the conditions of the
Philippines, particularly the actions of the
friars and the colonial officials, so the friars
wanted to hide that fact. They wanted Jose
Rizal to say that everything he said and
wrote aren’t true, this is of course to basically
obtain their status.
If Rizal had really retracted then he would
have been given the sacraments that was
mentioned while ago. It means he would go
back to his catholic faith. So, why is his body
not handled in a catholic manner in the sense
that he would be given some blessings, hold a
mass, be buried in a catholic cemetery, so all
of those did not happen. That is why scholars
are skeptical about the retraction of Jose
Rizal,
So, this mean, this should have been
accomplished. Because if Rizal really
retracted and went back to his catholic faith
then the manner of his death / execution
should be really administered by the
necessary sacraments. But it was not,
nothing was given to Rizal in his death. Rizal’s
The original letter was not shown to the
public. The only thing that were published
are the copies of the letter but the original
letter itself was not shown. If an original
document is not shown to the public then
it undermines the credibility. Like it
weakens the truth that Rizal retract
because the original copy is not there.
Because no matter how much you state
that there is really a letter and you can’t
provide any real letter then your stand is
not strong and your credibility is weak.