Right time to do what is right
Inquirer News Service
I AM writing as a wife and a mother. It would be very easy to just concern myself with taking care of my husband and my two young children. But I feel I have a responsibility not just to my family but to my country as well.
I feel that there is something that I have to ask the Catholic Church. As you well know, our country is in a political crisis. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has admitted an indiscretion and wishes to close the chapter on the "Hello, Garci" tapes. But how can we close this chapter when the whole truth has yet to come out? The President says all Filipinos are equal under the law and yet her continued occupancy of Malacañang betrays that assertion.
Forgive my bias, but I don't think the President appointed Virgilio Garcillano for his integrity. How can we give the commissioner the benefit of the doubt when he cannot even face the Filipino people? We can have our different interpretations of the conversations between him and the President, but one thing is all too clear: the Palace attempted a cover-up. And President Arroyo must take full responsibility for this betrayal of public trust.
I am writing this letter in the hope that the Church will press for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
If you would allow me to quote Martin Luther King Jr: "The time is always right to do what is right." And with all due respect, I can think of nothing worse than knowing what is right and not doing anything about it.
I trust that the Church will do what it ought to and the time is now.
DANIELLE S. LIZARES, 30 Mercury St., Bel-Air, Makati City
