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BySandhyaSomashekharFebruary11

In the opening weeks of the Republicanpresidential race, Rick Santorum came across asa prickly, exasperated figure on the fringe of thedebate stage, spending much of his airtime com-

plaining about the lack of attention from themoderators.But Santorum gradually has taken on a differ-

ent image, one of a confident, good-natured andalmost fatherly presence on the campaign trail

who has shrewdly taken advantage of the shift-ing political landscape.

Obamas Truth Team aims to network its way to areelection winBishops oppose birth-control compro-miseCandidates make their appeals at CPACPresidentObama looks to tame U.S. debtRick Santorum toutsconservative pedigreeObama campaign cranks upspendingRomney: I was 'severely conservative' gover-norSantorums takes on womens rolesObama revisesbirth-control coverage ruleMan pleads guilty in plot tokill ObamaJustices getting served on late-night television

.While his rivals attacked one another in the mediaglare, Santorums campaign has followed a carefully cali-brated strategy to leverage his status below the radar.

Hearing from voters that Santorums electability wasan issue, his advisers honed his message and focused hisattention on a handful of states where he could win.

When the controversy about contraception coverage andthe Catholic Church emerged last week, Santorum leaptat the chance to address social issues, which are hisstrength.

And after nine months on the campaign trail, he hassharpened his stump speech, speaking with more confi-dence and authority and centering on a theme unique tohis candidacy: It is impossible to tackle the economywithout addressing the social problems that contributeto it.

That more sure-footed demeanor was on display as abeaming Santorum spoke Friday to a packed house atthe Conservative Political Action Committee confer-ence in Washington, flanked by his wife and six of hisseven children.

This is not the von Trapp family and were not go-ing to sing, he joked before drilling in the message that

he has sought to make stick that the country wantsand needs an unabashed conservative such as him at thehelm. The lesson weve learned is that we will nolonger abandon and apologize for the principles thatmade this country great, for a hollow victory in Novem-ber.

Santorum has become a better candidate, supporterssay, at the same time as the campaign atmosphericshave changed in a way that helps his candidacy.

When I look at the three candidates on the stagenow, if there was an award for the most improved, itwould be Rick Santorum, said J. Gresham Barrett, aformer congressman and chairman of Santorums SouthCarolina campaign.

Early on, Santorum and his advisers noticed thatvoters at town hall meetings were raising questionsabout his electability a widespread and persistentconcern, considering that only 2 percent of Republicanvoters labeled him the best candidate to take on Presi-dent Obama in a recent Washington Post-ABC poll.

Santorum, known for his back-and-forth engage-ment with his audience, grilled the voters about whatthey meant. The conversations, advisers said, helped

sharpen Santorums stump speeches. He now invariablymentions that he is the only candidate to have won anelection in a swing state, and that, as the grandson of acoal-miner, he is uniquely suited to win over conserva-tive blue-collar Democrats.

In his victory speech after sweeping three state con-tests last week, he noted: Governor Romneys greatestattribute is, Well, I have the most money and the bestorganization. Well, hes not going to have the mostmoney and the best organization in the fall, is he?

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The upper echelon of the party,the givers and bundlers, tend to be Chamber of Com-merce Republicans. But the grass roots of the party,

theyre primarily driven by cultural and social issues,Reed said. The message and the raison detre of theSantorum candidacy could be summed up in one sen-tence: The way to have a strong economy is to havestrong marriages and families.

Santorum also has managed to finesse his reputationas a testy and self-righteous culture warrior, cultivatedover 16 years in Congress. His persona has evolvedover the course of the campaign into something softerand humbler at least to conservative voters, who seein Santorum an earnest and passionate believer in theircauses. At house parties and town hall meetings, Santo-rum has lingered long after the events to answer ques-tions and pose for pictures.

As his rivals focused their attacks on one another inNevada, Santorum used the opportunity to condemnthe infighting and campaign elsewhere. And whenopponents mocked his sweater vest as a garment of abygone era, Santorum turned it into an emblem of hiscampaign.

Recent polls show that he has become better knownand better regarded since June his favorability ratingamong Republican voters was a solid 52 percent in a

January Washington Post-ABC News poll. He performswell among voters for whom social issues are criticaland those who believe strong moral character is themost important candidate attribute.

I think part of his likability, especially within theRepublican right, is based on the perception that he isearnest, that he believes what he says, said Chris Bo-rick, a political science professor at Muhlenberg Collegein Allentown, Pa., who has followed Santorums cam-paign. You wrap that all up in a sweater vest andyoure the Mister Rogers of the Republican primary.

The former Pennsylvania senator also benefited fromthe shifting dynamics of the race.

He may have always emphasized his blue-collar roots,but this suddenly seemed more relevant as Romney hasstruggled recently to defend his wealth and demonstrateempathy with the poor. Santorum, by contrast, has madehelping the impoverished a key part of his campaign anddoubled down on that emphasis as Romney flailed.

Obamas Truth Team aims to network its way to areelection winBishops oppose birth-control compro-miseCandidates make their appeals at CPACPresidentObama looks to tame U.S. debtRick Santorum toutsconservative pedigreeObama campaign cranks upspendingRomney: I was 'severely conservative' gover-norSantorums takes on womens rolesObama revisesbirth-control coverage ruleMan pleads guilty in plot tokill ObamaJustices getting served on late-night television

.Early in the campaign, Santorum seemed out of stepwith the times when he launched his candidacy on amessage of social conservatism, arguing that the coun-trys financial problems were inextricably linked to itssagging marriage rates and the number of children bornout of wedlock.

Then last week, the Obama administrations guide-lines requiring many religious institutions to cover con-

traception as part of employee health insurance galva-nized conservatives, who view the decision as a breachof religious liberty. The controversy handed Santorum, aconservative Catholic, a tailor-made campaign issue,even after the Obama administration revised its rulesFriday.

Santorums embrace of social issues has been astealth benefit in the primary because those issues galva-nize grass-roots voters, said Ralph E. Reed Jr., a long-time Republican operative and founder of the Faith andFreedom Coalition.

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ByNappNazworthChristianPostReporter,February16,2012

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is best-ing rival Mitt Romney among evangelicals andCatholics, while Romney is preferred bymainline Protestants, according to a new Pew

Research Center poll.The Feb. 8-12 poll, which looked at non-Latino white

Republicans and Republican-leaning registered voters,shows Santorum with the support of 41 percent of evan-gelical Protestants and 37 percent of Catholics, whileRomney is supported by 23 percent of evangelical Prot-estants and 27 percent of Catholics. Among mainlineProtestants, on the other hand, Romney has 30 percentsupport to Santorum's 24 percent support.

Santorum's support among evangelicals and Catholicshas risen dramatically since mid-January when only 22

percent of evangelicals and only 12 percent of Catholicssaid they would vote for him.Romney, meanwhile, has seen a drop in support, es-

pecially among Catholics. In November 2011, 57 percentof Catholics said Romney was "a strong conservative"and 50 percent said he "takes consistent positions onissues." In the recent poll, only 32 percent of Catholicssaid he was "a strong conservative" and 35 percent saidhe "takes consistent positions on issues," a drop of 25and 15 percentage points, respectively.

The proportion of mainline Protestants who thinkRomney is a strong conservative has, on the other hand,

increased slightly, from 44 percent in November 2011 to51 percent in February 2012.

Santorum is Catholic and Romney belongs to theChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Texas Con-gressman Ron Paul is the only evangelical Protestant re-maining in the race, but his support among evangelicalsis only six percent.

Newt Gingrich was baptized in a Southern Baptistchurch, but is now Catholic. His support among evan-gelicals is about the same as Romney's, 20 percent. He

comes in third among Catholics at 18 percent.Gingrich, Romney and Santorum would all per-

form about the same in potential match-ups againstPresident Obama. Obama would beat each of thosecandidates with 57, 52 and 53 percent of the vote, re-spectively, if the election were held at the time of thesurvey. All three candidates would win about 70 to 76

percent of the white evangelical vote as well.The white Catholic vote would go to Romney (52

percent) or Santorum (55 percent) if either of thosecandidates were the nominee. If Gingrich were thenominee, though, Obama would win the white Catho-lic vote (52-44 percent).

The full sample had 1,501 adults. The sample of552 non-Latino white Republicans and Republican-leaning registered voters included 184 evangelical Prot-estants, 110 mainline Protestants and 111 Catholics.The margin of error for the full sample is three per-

centage points. The margin of error for the sample ofRepublicans and Republican-leaning independents isfive percentage points.

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WASHINGTON (AP) Most Americans don'tshare Rick Santorum's absolutist take on abortion. He'sout of step on women in combat. He questions the val-ues of the two-thirds of mothers who work. He's eventroubled by something as commonplace as birth con-trol for married couples.

Even among a Republican presidential field anxiousto please religious conservatives, Santorum's ideas standout.

A Catholic father of seven whose kids are home-

schooled, Santorum may seem to wear his conservatismas comfortably as his sweater vests. But he's walked acareful path, keeping the more provocative opinionsthat helped sink his re-election to the Senate in 2006mostly out of his presidential campaign.

That is until he leaped to the top of the polls, along-side Mitt Romney.

Now Santorum's record on social issues is getting acloser look. On several matters, he's outside the Repub-lican mainstream. And if he becomes the GOP nomi-nee, some of his ideas would likely be surprising, even

puzzling, to general election voters.BIRTHCONTROL

Santorum: Says he wouldn't try to take away thepill or condoms. But he believes states should be free toban them if they want. He argues that the SupremeCourt erred when it ruled in 1965 that Americans have aright to privacy that includes the use of contraceptives.Birth control, even within marriage, violates his beliefsas a Catholic. Last year Santorum told the Christian blogCaffeinated Thoughts that as president he would warnthe nation about "the dangers of contraception" and thepermissive culture it encourages. "Many of Christianfaith have said, 'Well, that's OK. Contraception is OK,'"he said. "It's not OK. It's a license to do things in thesexual realm that is counter to how things are supposedto be. ... If it's not for purposes of procreation, then youdiminish this very special bond between men andwomen." Santorum has campaigned on a pledge to endall federal funding of birth control, which low-incomewomen in some states receive through the state-federalMedicaid program.

Catholics: Despite the church's teachings, 84 per-cent of Catholics believe a person who uses artificial

birth control can still be a good Catholic, according to aCBS News poll. And 89 percent of Catholic women fa-vor expanding access to birth control for those whocan't afford it, the nonpartisan Public Religion ResearchInstitute found.

All Americans: Almost everyone uses it. Three-fourths of U.S. women have taken the pill, the CBSNews poll says, and other studies show virtually all sexu-ally active women have used some type of birth control.A mere 8 percent of Americans think birth control is

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morally wrong, according to a Pew Research Center pollthis month. Four in 10 say it's not even a moral issuethese days.

WORKINGWOMEN Santorum: His 2005 book, "It Takes a Family:

Conservatism and the Common Good," suggests par-ents in two-income families aren't doing what's best forthe kids. Too often, he writes, both parents work whenthe family could get by on one salary: "For some par-ents, the purported need to provide things for their chil-dren simply provides a convenient rationalization forpursuing a gratifying career outside the home." He de-scribed it as a sad situation created by "radical feminists"who undermined the traditional family by "convincingwomen that professional accomplishments are the keyto happiness." Santorum's unsuccessful re-election bidtook a hit from a rival's TV ad featuring a working

mother challenging the senator "to come to my house atthe end of the month when we're doing our bills and tellme how we can live on one income." Santorum recentlytried to deflect questions about the book by saying thathis wife, who left her nursing career to care for theirchildren, helped write that section because she felt herdecision to become a stay-at-home mom wasn't valued

by society. He predicted a Santorum administrationwould have "plenty of working moms."

All Americans: Two-thirds of married motherswith husbands are working or looking for jobs, accord-ing to the Labor Department. Like Santorum, mostAmericans don't think it's best for children when momswork full time; they're divided over whether staying athome or working part time is ideal. But more moms areworking for economic reasons than personal satisfac-tion. Half of full-time working mothers would ratherwork part time, and a third would prefer to stay home,according to a 2009 Pew Research Center poll. About 1in 10 of the moms working full-time says it's an idealsituation.

WOMENINCOMBAT Santorum: Spoke out against women in combat

when the Pentagon announced plans to allow them to

serve closer to the front. He says he worries that fight-ing men will be distracted by their "natural instinct" toprotect women. He also says the differences in physicalabilities between men and women aren't being takeninto account.

Republicans: Six in 10 would allow women toserve in units that engage in close combat; about a third

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All Americans: Even less likely to say thereshould be no abortions at all 16 percent support atotal ban. About half of Americans want abortion to belegal in most cases, and almost as many say it should bemostly illegal.

GAYSINTHEMILITARY Santorum: Wants to reinstate the "don't ask,

don't tell" policy that banned openly gay service mem-bers. In a GOP debate in Florida, Santorum said liftingthe ban was social engineering and that "sexual activity

has absolutely no place in the military." He added:"Keep it to yourself whether you're a heterosexual or ahomosexual."

Republicans: Santorum's party is divided on theissue. A CBS News poll gave a 48-41 edge to supportersof gays serving in the military. Republicans who feltstrongly about the issue were twice as likely to supportgays in the military than to oppose them, however.

All Americans: An overwhelming number 68percent favor allowing gays to serve openly, thesame poll found.

are opposed, a Quinnipiac University poll last yearfound.

All Americans: Slightly more favorable towardwomen in combat than Republicans.

ABORTION Santorum: Favors amending the Constitution to

ban abortion. He says that human life begins at concep-tion and doctors who perform abortions should becharged as criminals. In his book, he compared womenwho have abortions to 19th-century slaveholders, writ-

ing that "unlike abortion today, in most states even theslaveholder did not have the unlimited right to kill hisslave." In the past, Santorum supported allowing abor-tions in cases of rape or incest, but he now says no tothose exceptions.

Republicans: Although united in the belief thatabortion should be illegal in most cases two-thirdssay so an overwhelming majority of Republicans arewilling to make some exceptions. Only a fifth say abor-tion should always be illegal, according to AP-GfK poll-ing in August.

In Cumming, Georgia, RickSantorum has sharpened his rhetoricagainst President Obama on thecampaign trail, painting a picture of apresident out of touch with theAmerican people that seems aimed attapping into fear and anger amongRepublican primary voters.

Throughout the weekend, he be-gan painting an increasingly grim pic-ture of a president whom he con-tended has a theology that is notbased on the Bible, is imposing

amoral values on the Catholic churchand is requiring insurance companiesto cover prenatal testing in order toweed out disabled children. Much ofit is an attempt to convince voters, ashe said Sunday night, that the presi-dent is one "of the few elite snobswho think they know better how torun their life."

The former Pennsylvania senatorsenses that his audiences want pas-

sion, and he delivers it to them inspades, frequently employing warand religion as metaphors.

The former Senator does notspeak with a teleprompter but fromhis heart. He does not dodge ques-tions. He is so spontaneous and real,

and that is a refreshing note to ateflon Obama, a contrived Romneyor a whining Gingrich. But best ofall, he has kept his rhetorics on ahigh ground as he addresses theissues and not dabble on so muchpersonalities.

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ANNOUNCER: This is FACE THE NA-TION. From CBS News in Washington FACETHE NATION with Bob Schieffer.

BOB SCHIEFFER: And good morning. Wel-

come, Senator.You are the leader in the polls this morning.And I have to say you were very busy yesterday.The Associated Press led its story of your ap-pearance in Columbus, Ohio, by saying, quote,"Rick Santorum questioned Barack Obama'sChristian values." That was after you lashed outat the President's proposal on energy of allthings when you said this.

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date/Former Pennsylvania Senator): It's not about you.It's not about you. It's not about your quality of life. It'snot about your jobs.

MAN: Right.

RICK SANTORUM: It's about some phony ideal,some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on theBible, a different theology.

(Crowd applauding)

BOB SCHIEFFER: So, Senator, I've got to ask you.

What-- what in the world were you talking about, Sir?

RICK SANTORUM: Well, I was talking about the-- theradical environmentalists. That's why I was talking aboutenergy, this-- this idea that-- that man is-- is not-- is hereto serve the Earth as opposed to husband its resources

and be good stewards of the Earth. And I think that is a-- a-- is a phony ideal. I don't believe that that's what--that's what we're here to do. That-- we-- that-- that manis here to-- to use the resources and use them wisely, tocare for the Earth, to be a steward of the Earth. Butwe're not here to serve the Earth. The Earth is not theobjective. Man is the objective. And-- and I think a lotof radical-- a-- a-- a lot of radical environmentalists haveit upside down.

BOB SCHIEFFER: Well, how does that translate intosome sort of theology that the President's theology--

RICK SANTORUM (voice overlapping): Well, it's-- it'sa world view.

BOB SCHIEFFER: --is not based on the Bible. I meanthat suggests that he's not a Christian.

RICK SANTORUM: No, I wasn't suggesting that Presi-dent's not a Christian. I accept the fact that the Presidentis a Christian. I-- I just said that when you have a-- a-- aworld view that-- that elevates the Earth above man and-- and-- and says that, you know, we can't take those re-sources because we're going to harm the Earth by-- by

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HeadsUp March 2012 Page 9 took on the Pres-- President on prenatal care for expec-tant mothers. Here's what you said at this-- in this pas-sage.

RICK SANTORUM: One of the things that you don'tknow about Obamacare and one of the mandates is they

require free prenatal testing in every insurance policy inAmerica. Why? Because it saves money in health care.Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in moreabortions and therefore less care that has to be donebecause we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society.

BOB SCHIEFFER: Senator, I-- I have to ask you to-- togive some explanation of that. You sound like you'resaying that the purpose of prenatal care is to cause peo-ple to-- to have abortions, to get more abortions in thiscountry. I think there are any number testing, I think anynumber of people would-- would say that's not the pur-

pose at all.RICK SANTORUM: Well, Bob, that's simply not true.The-- the bottom line is that a lot of prenatal tests aredone to identify deformities in-- in utero and the cus-tomary procedure is to encourage abortions and in fact,prenatal testing that-- that particularly amniocentesis.I'm not talking about general prenatal care.

You said prenatal care. I-- I didn't say prenatal careshouldn't be covered. We're talking about specificallyprenatal testing and specifically amniocentesis, which is a-- which is a procedure that actually creates a risk of hav-

ing a miscarriage when you have it and is done for thepurposes of identifying maladies of a child in the womb.In-- in which in many cases and in fact most cases aphysicians recommend, particularly if there's a problem,recommend abortion.

We know, Bob, that ninety percent of Down syndromechildren in America are aborted. So to suggest wheredoes that come from? I have a child who has trisomy 18.Almost a hundred percent of trisomy 18 children areencouraged to be aborted. So, I know what I'm talkingabout here.

BOB SCHIEFFER: Well, I-- I know you know whatyou're talking about. I know that well. I know you alsohad another child that was stillborn. But--

RICK SANTORUM (overlapping): And I was--

BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Didn't you want toknow about that, just a minute.

(Cross talking)

BOB SCHIEFFER: Just hold on.

things that are-- that-- that frankly are just not scientifi-cally proven, for example, that politicization of thewhole global warming debate, I mean, this is just all--all-- all an attempt to, you know, to centralize powerand to give more power to the government. And-- and

it's not questioning the President's beliefs in-- in Chris-tianity. I'm talking about, you know, his-- the-- the be-lief that-- that man is-- should be in charge of the earthand should have--

BOB SCHIEFFER (voice overlapping): No, but once--

RICK SANTORUM: --dominion over it and should begood stewards of it.

BOB SCHIEFFER: I-- I don't want to just spend thewhole program on this, but was your--

RICK SANTORUM (voice overlapping): Good.

BOB SCHIEFFER: --use of the word theology, per-haps, you could have had a better word than that? Imean, don't you know that-- that--

RICK SANTORUM (voice overlapping): It--

BOB SCHIEFFER: --or do you wonder that-- thatmight lead some people to suggest that you were ques-tioning the President's faith?

RICK SANTORUM: Well-- no, because I've repeatedlysaid I don't question the President's faith. I've-- I'verepeatedly said that I believe the President is a Chris-tian. He says he is a Christian. But I'm talking about hisworld view or his-- the-- the way he approaches prob-lems in this country and I think they're-- they're differ-ent than how most people do in America.

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RICK SANTORUM: But what my-- my child was notstillborn. My child was born alive.

BOB SCHIEFFER: All right.

RICK SANTORUM: --and he lived two hours.

BOB SCHIEFFER: All right.

RICK SANTORUM: And by the way, prenatal testingwas-- we had a-- we had a sonogram done there and they

detected a problem. And, yes, the doctor said, you know,you-- you should consider an abortion. This is typical,Bob. This is what goes on and in-- in medical roomsaround the country. And yes, prenatal testing, amniocen-tesis does, in fact, result more often than not in thiscountry in abortions. That is-- that is a fact.

BOB SCHIEFFER: I stand corrected on the stillborn.You're absolutely right. I simply misspoke. But, Senator,do you not want any kind of prenatal testing? I meanwould we just turn our back on science that this is some-thing that expectant mothers should not go through, that

it's best not to know about these things ahead of time? Imean is that what you're saying here?

RICK SANTORUM: No, I'm not saying. Look, peoplehave the right to do it but to have the government forcepeople to provide it free, just as to me, has a has is-- is abit loaded. There are all sorts of prenatal testing whichshould be provided free. I have no problem with that ifthe-- if the insurance companies want to. I'm not for anyof these things to be forced. Just let me-- just step backand say I don't believe any of these procedures, anythingin insurance should be forced. So let me-- let me just start

from there.

BOB SCHIEFFER: Okay.

RICK SANTORUM: But the idea of having, for exam-ple, sonograms and other types of prenatal care, abso-lutely, if-- if I think that is-- that is a wise thing to do.And If I was an employer, I would certainly encouragethat. But not all prenatal testing, amniocenteses basicallyare used for the purposes of identifying children who aredisabled and in most cases end up as a result with abor-tions. It's the bottom line.

BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): You're not saying. Letme just ask you, you're not saying that the cause of this,that the President looks down on disabled people, areyou? You're not accusing him of that?

RICK SANTORUM: Well, the President supported par-tial birth abortion and partial birth abortion is a proce-dure used almost exclusively to-- to kill children late inpregnancy when they've been found out to be disabled.The President voted for a provision that-- that said thatchildren born alive as a result of abortions late in preg-

nancy who were-- who were otherwise viable shouldbe allowed to be killed by the doctor. I think the Presi-dent has a very bad record on-- on-- on the issue ofabortion and children who are disabled who are in thewomb. And I think this simply is a continuation ofthat idea.

BOB SCHIEFFER: Well, since you brought all thisup, I just wanted to make sure that everybody had aclear understanding of exactly what you meant--

RICK SANTORUM: Yeah.

BOB SCHIEFFER: And-- and how you feel aboutthis. Another thing that raised a few eyebrows yester-day, Senator, you questioned the value of all things atthe public school system. Now here's what you saidabout that.

RICK SANTORUM: But the idea that the federalgovernment should be running schools, frankly, muchless that the state government should be running

schools is anachronistic. It goes back to the time ofindustrialization of America when people came off thefarms where they did home school or have the littleneighborhood school and into these big factories. Sowe built equal factories called public schools.

BOB SCHIEFFER: So, there you are, Senator. Imean, are you saying that we shouldn't have publicschools now? I mean I thought public schools werethe foundation of American democracy.

RICK SANTORUM: Yeah, I think, I'm saying that--that local communities and-- and parents should be

the ones who are in control of public education, notthe-- certainly not the federal government and to as Isaid before, as I said in that clip I think the state gov-ernments have not done a particularly good job inpublic education.

I think public education should be a dynamic processthat's locally run, that works with parents to providethe optimal opportunity for each child in America toget the education that they need, not what the federalgovernment or the state government says that youshould have.

That's why I refer to it as, you know, going back to theindustrialization of America when we had a-- we had asystem in-- in this country with industrializationwhere, you know, you had one car produced. And, youknow, you maybe got it in two colors.

And-- and we haven't changed public education sig-nificantly since then. Every single car on a Detroit lineis custom ordered. Why? Because it's designed to meetthe needs of the customer.


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The education system, federally run, state run, is not de-signed to meet the-- meet the needs of the customer. It'sdesigned for the purposes of the school not the childrenand the parents who are the customers of that system.And I think we need a dramatic change in that system.

BOB SCHIEFFER: Well, you know, Senator, if every-body could afford to home school their children thatwould be one thing but--

RICK SANTORUM: I'm not talking about homeschooling. I'm talking about public education, Bob.

BOB SCHIEFFER: Well, you know, there are littlecommunities where the people couldn't afford to have apublic school. And that's why you have states involvedin the schools. And there-- there--

RICK SANTORUM: Well, there's one thing the state--

there's one thing for states to-- to help fund public edu-cation. It's another thing to dictate and micromanageand-- and create a "one size fits all education" system in

states and certainly in the federal government whatPresident Obama is trying to do. What we need is tohave the same kind of change and dynamic change inthe public school system as we've seen in the economyof this country. Customized. Everybody gets what they

need. I have seven children. I can tell you each one ofthem learn differently. All of them can excel in differentsettings. And that goes with every-- every Americanchild. And we can do better than a system that one inthree children drop out of school. If that is the hall-mark, Bob, that you talk about as a-- as a great society,when one of three children drop out of school and a lotof the folks who don't drop out of school still can't readat grade level, that to me is a failure and defending thatfailure is not something I'm planning on doing which iswhat the President does.

BOB SCHIEFFER: Well, what-- what do you do to--what would you do to fix it, Senator?

RICK SANTORUM: Well, as I said before, first I'd getthe federal government out. I would, to the extent pos-sible with res-- with respect to mandates and-- and de-signing curriculum and the like, I would get the stategovernment out. I think that-- that the parents shouldbe in charge working with the local school district to tryto design an educational environment for each childthat optimizes their potential. And whether it's in apublic school or a private school or a Christian school

or whatever kind of-- and whatever kind of setting thatis best that the people at the local level can determine, Ithink that's where we need to go in education. It's gotto be a much more dynamic process. We are failingAmerican children. We're failing our society with havingthese high rates of dropouts and the people graduatingwithout the skills or frankly without the value structurethat's necessary to be able to go out and work hard andto be able to-- to produce in our society and to buildstrong communities. And I think we need some reallydramatic changes. And we're not getting that.

BOB SCHIEFFER: Senator, I want to thank you verymuch for being with us this morning. I had hoped toask you about some questions about the economy. But,frankly, you made so much news yesterday, out thereon the campaign trail, I felt compelled to ask you aboutthat. RICK SANTORUM: Well, I'm-- I'm happy tomake news about-- about important issues of the daythat obviously don't get talked about a lot.

BOB SCHIEFFER: All right. Well, thank you so much.We'll be back in just a minute with our political roundtable.

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sanction to violate theirmost deeply held beliefs, espe-cially their unpopular beliefs.

Meanwhile, those who sup-port the mandate respond,But pork is good for you.

It is, after all, the otherwhite meat.

Other supporters add, Somany Jews eat pork, and those

who dont should just get withthe times.

Still others say, Those Or-thodox are just trying to im-pose their beliefs on everyoneelse.

But in our hypothetical,those arguments fail in thepublic debate, because people

widely recognize the following:First, although people may

reasonably debate whetherpork is good for you, thats notthe question posed by the na-tionwide pork mandate.

Instead, the mandate gener-ates the question whether peo-ple who believe even if theybelieve in error that pork is

not good for you should beforced by government to servepork within their very own in-stitutions. In a nation commit-ted to religious liberty and di-

versity, the answer, of course,is: No.

Second, the fact that some(or even most) Jews eat pork is

simply irrelevant. The factremains that some Jews donot and they do not outof their most deeply held re-ligious convictions.

Does the fact that largemajorities in society evenlarge majorities within theprotesting religious commu-nity reject a particular reli-

gious belief make it permissi-ble for the government to

weigh in on one side of thatdispute? Does it allow gov-ernment to punish that mi-nority belief with its coercivepower?

In a nation committed toreligious liberty and diversity,the answer, of course, is: No.

Third, the charge that theOrthodox Jews are imposingtheir beliefs on others has itexactly backwards.

Again, the question gener-ated by a government man-date is whether the govern-ment will impose its beliefthat eating pork is good on

objecting Orthodox Jews.Meanwhile, there is no im-position at all on the freedomof those who want to eatpork. That is, they are subjectto no government interfer-ence at all in their choice toeat pork, and pork is ubiqui-tous and cheap, available at

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For my testimony today, Iwould like to tell a story. Letscall it The Parable of the Ko-sher Deli.

Once upon a time, a newlaw is proposed, so that anybusiness that serves foodmust serve pork.

There is a narrow excep-

tion for kosher catering hallsattached to synagogues, sincethey serve mostly members ofthat synagogue, but kosherdelicatessens are still subjectto the mandate.

The Orthodox Jewish com-munity whose membersrun kosher delis and many

other restaurants and grocersbesides expresses its out-rage at the new governmentmandate.

And they are joined by oth-ers who have no problem eat-ing pork not just the many

Jews who eat pork, but peopleof all faiths because theseothers recognize the threat to

the principle of religious lib-erty.

They recognize as well thepractical impact of the dam-age to that principle.

They know that, if themandate stands, they might bethe next ones forced underthreat of severe government

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HeadsUp March 2012 Page 13 the overwhelming majority ofrestaurants and grocers.

Indeed, some pork produc-ers and retailers, and even the

government itself, are so eagerto promote the eating of porkthat they sometimes give porkaway for free.

In this context, the questionis this: Can a customer cometo a kosher deli, demand to beserved a ham sandwich, and ifrefused, bring down severegovern-

ment sanction on the deli?In a nation committed to

religious liberty and diversity,the answer, of course, is: No.

So, in our hypotheticalstory, because the hypotheti-cal nation is indeed commit-ted to religious liberty anddiversity, these argumentscarry the day.

In response, those propos-ing the new law claim to hearand understand the concerns

of kosher deli owners and

offer them a newaccommodation.You are free to call your-self a kosher deli; youare free not to place hamsandwiches on yourmenu; you are free notto be the person to pre-pare the sandwich andhand it over thecounter to the cus-tomer.But we will force your

meat supplier to set up a ki-osk on your premises and tooffer, prepare and serve hamsandwiches to all of your

customers free of charge tothem. And when you getyour monthly bill from yourmeat supplier, it will includethe cost of any of the freeham sandwiches that yourcustomers may accept.

And you will, of course,be required to pay that bill.

Some who supported the

deli owners initially began tocelebrate the fact that hamsandwiches didnt need to beon the menu and didnt needto be prepared or served bythe deli itself.

But on closer examination,they noticed three troublingthings:

First, all kosher delis will

still be forced to pay for theham sandwiches. Second,many of the kosher delis

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I think were finally ready forthis.

In the seven years that Ivebeen going to Catholicchurches, Id never heard apriest speak so directly aboutthe Churchs teaching in thisareaand I can understand

why. For decades our culturehas perceived contraception asbeing akin to air or water: auniversally good resource withno downside. Only an institu-tion with the most nefariousmotives would oppose every-one incorporating this invalu-able blessing into their lives,

the thinking went. And so Imguessing that many of ourpriests felt like the misunder-standing on this topic was sodeep and so widespread that

and denounced throughoutpopular culture, and the ques-tion hung in the air: Is he go-ing to go there?

He did.You can hear the whole

homily on our parish websitehere. In the second half ofhis talk, he gently but un-flinchingly explained that theCatholic Church teaches thatcontraception is wrong. Hegave a bit of backgroundabout the reasoning behindthis stance, cleared up somecommon misconceptions, andpointed people to resources

where they could find outmore about methods ofNatural Family Planning. Ashe spoke, the thought came tomind:

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ByJenniferFulwilerNationalCatholicRegister

February22,2012

A couple of weeks ago,our priest gave a homilyabout contraception. Whilespeaking about the Healthand Human Services man-

date, our associate pastor, Fr.Jonathan Raia, made a fewallusions to the fact that theChurch believes that contra-ception is bad. There wereover a thousand peoplepacked into the building, anda slight but noticeable ten-sion developed as he inchedcloser and closer to the sub-

ject. This most controversialof Catholic teachings hadbeen splashed all over thenews in recent days, ridiculed


THEPARABLEOFTHEKOSHERDELI... meatsuppliers themselves are forbidden in consciencefrom offering, preparing or serving pork to any-one. Third, there are many kosher delis that are

their own meat supplier, so the mandate to offer,prepare and serve the ham sandwich still falls onthem.

This story has a happy ending: The govern-ment rec -ognized that it is absurd for someoneto come into a kosher deli and demand a hamsandwich; that it is beyond absurd for that privatedemand to be backed with the coercive power ofthe state; that it is downright surreal to apply thiscoercive power when the customer can get the

same sandwich cheaply, or even free, just a fewdoors down.

The question before the United States govern-ment right now is whether the story of our

own church institutions that serve the public, andthat are threatened by the HHS mandate, will endhappily too.

Will our nation continue to be one committedto religious liberty and diversity?

We urge, in the strongest possible terms, thatthe answer must be: Yes.

We urge you, in the strongest possible terms, toanswer the same way. Thank you for your atten-tion. #


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has its challenges, the grass isjust as complicated on theother side. After forty yearsof collective experience, it isdawning on people that con-traception does not give

women freedom over theirbodies. Rather, it takes itaway, as we see when we con-sider the data that over halfof women who seek abor-tions were using contracep-tion at the time they con-ceived. And while it may ormay not be true that 98 per-cent of people sitting in the

pews at Mass use contracep-tion, Im willing to bet that 98percent of them also knowsomeone who has ended up inan abortion clinic because offailed contraception.

The society-wide experi-ment of artificially severingthe sexual act from its life-giving potential has been go-

ing on for four decades now,and people have had time tosee that its not the cure-allsolution they were told it

would be. The tension isbuilding as more and moremen and women are disap-pointed by the solution ofcontraception, and the time isripe for the message that

theres another way. Im notnaive enough to think thatone homily would be enoughto inspire everyone in thepews to throw out their birthcontrol pills the moment theyget home; but I do think itcould get them to consider it.

As we sat listening to Fr.

Jonathans homily that Sunday,I think we were all surprisedto hear such an open discus-sion of this topic. Not onlydid he eloquently state theChurchs teaching, but then heissued a gentle message toanyone who may not currentlyaccept this doctrine, challeng-ing them to reconsider theirstance. In the tone of a car-ing father, he suggested thateach of us pray for conver-sion within the broader issueof respect for life and humansexuality, wherever we may be

in need of it. He ended bysaying, This is at the heart ofour Faith, because its at theheart of who we are as humanbeings.

When he finished, thechurch was still. The topichad been hotly debated allover the country in recentdays, even among Catholics,

and there was an electric si-lence as we all internalized

what he had said. I thinkmany of us also wonderedhow our fellow parishioners

would react. There had beenso much media speculationabout practicing Catholicsopinions on this issue, how

would the thousand-plus peo-

ple in this church, located in apolitically liberal metropolitanarea within the ProtestantSouth, receive this homily?

The question was unex-pectedly answered when, asFr. Jonathan returned to hischair at the side of the altar,the pews erupted in spontane-

ous, thunderous applause. #

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pastorat St.WilliamCatholic

Churchat RoundRock,TX.

theyd need hours of speakingtime to even begin to addressit properly, and thus avoided itin homilies. (Ive seen quite afew parishes, for example,

where it may not be preachedfrom the pulpit, but parish-ioners are encouraged to getinvolved in marriage and fam-ily ministries, where the issueis discussed in a more interac-tive, personal setting.)

But things are changingnow. Just as the tide hasturned on the issue of abor-tion, I see it turning with con-

traception too. Even non-Catholic publications are con-ceding that that the Churchmay not be totally crazy whenit says that artificial birth con-trol is neither good for theindividual nor for society.More and more couples arerealizing that contraceptiondoes not make marriage eas-

ier; theyre coming to see that,while Natural Family Planning


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Introduction

Many today equate the

word sacristan merely torefer to an altar boy, or achurch volunteer help, whonot necessarily a fulltime-

worker.In olden times, it was way

more than that.Cura parocos or parish

priests initiate persons that

have earned their trust bytraining them first in the li-turgical rites of the CatholicChurch, and then as they ma-ture in service, by delegatingmore and more serious ad-ministrative functions. Thusa sacristan would have a solid

understanding of how litur-gies flow - the order of ser-vice, the preparations and thetear down.

Additionally he should beskilled at cleaning and orga-nizing, and trustworthyenough to have keys to thechurch and accesss to itssafes and precious objects.Sacristans have responsibili-ties over lay church volun-teers that he should havegood delegation and peopleskills, mostly acquiredthrough on-the-job training.

Almost always, sacristans

led celibate lives as a result of the high demands of hiswork, making it flexible for them to be able to tagalong whenever the priests place of mission is moved,especially as the priest moves up in the hierarchy thathe belongs.

I came to know about this by generational word-of-mouth. My great grandfather on my mothers side washimself a sacristan who served the friar of Tiaong, Ta-yabas. He accompanied his priest when he was moved

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to Baler by his superiors, andwas only able to return toTiaong to start his own family,after the friar died.

And this is why I somewhatrelate to Pedro Calungsod (c.1654 April 2, 1672).

MissiontoGuamPedro was a young Roman Catho-

lic Filipino migrant, sacristan andmissionary catechist, who accompa-nied his priest Diego Luis de San Vi-tores as he sailed for Ladrones Is-

lands in 1672 for a missionary work for the Landrones Is-lands in 1672 with Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain, astheir benefactress.

Calungsod (spelled Calonsor in Spanish records) was

born ca. 1654. Historical records never mentioned his exactplace of birth and merely identified him as "Bisaya."Historical research identifies Ginatilanin Cebu, Hinunan-

ganand Hinundayanin Southern Leyte, andMolo district inIloilo as probable places of origin. Lobocin Bohol alsomakes a claim. Nevertheless, we can be certain of his eccle-siastical provenance since the entire Visayas region was un-der the old Diocese (now Archdiocese) of the Most HolyName (Cebu).

Few details of his early life prior to missionary work and

death are known.It is probable that he came to one of the boarding

schools run by Jesuits and received his basic educationthere, mastering the Catechism and learning to communi-cate in Spanish. It is also safe to assume that he also honedhis skills in drawing, painting, singing, acting, and carpentryas the nature of their mission demanded such skills.

Calungsod would have been expected to have some apti-tude in serving the Holy Mass according to the TridentineRite (now known as the Extraordinary Form of the Roman

Rite Mass).Calungsod, then around 14, was among the young exem-

plary catechists chosen to accompany the Jesuits in theirmission to the Ladrones Islands (Islas de los Ladrones orIslands of Thieves). Around 1667, these were laternamed Marianas (Las Islas de Mariana) in honour ofQueen Maria Ana of Austria who supported the mission.

In 1668, Calungsod travelled with Spanish Jesuit mis-sionaries to the Marianas Islands, named in honour of boththe Blessed Virgin Mary and of the Queen Regent ofSpain, Mara Ana of Austria, who funded their voyage.

San Vitores and Calungsod went to Guam to catechizethe native Chamorros.

The missionary landed on Guam in the villageof Hagta (nowAgana, Guam) and was greeted by ChiefKepuha whose family donated land to establish the firstCatholic mission on Guam. On February 2, 1669 Padre San

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status under a Roman Catholic mis-sion organization and male dominatedSpanish society.

Missionary life was hard. The provi-sions for the Mission did not arriveregularly; the jungles were too thick tocross; the cliffs were very stiff to

climb, and the islands were frequentlyvisited by devastating typhoons. De-spite all these, the missionaries perse-

vered, and the Mission was blessedwith many conversions.

Martyrdom and DeathThe missionaries fate, however,

took a dangerous turn. A Chinesemerchant named Choco began spread-

ing rumors that the baptismal waterused by missionaries was poisonousand was causing a slew of babies dy-ing.

As some sickly Chamorro infantswho were baptised eventually died,many believed the story and held themissionaries responsible. Choco wasreadily supported by the macanjas(medicine men) and the urritaos(young

males) who despised the missionaries.Calungsod and San Vitores came to

the village of Tumon, Guam on April2, 1672 in their search for a runawaycompanion named Esteban.

There they learned that the wife ofthe village chief Mata'pang gave birthto a daughter, and according to someaccounts, she consented to have childbaptized.

The chief, influenced by the lies ofChoco, strongly refused.

To give Mata'pang some time tocool down, Padre Diego and Pedrogathered the children and some adultsof the village at the nearby shore andstarted chanting with them the truthsof the Catholic Faith. They invitedMatapang to join them, but the apos-

bre de Maria.After Kepuhas death in 1669, however, Spanish mis-

sionary and Chamorro nobility relations worsened andthe Chamorro-Spanish War began in 1671 led byChief Hurao.

After several attacks on the Spanish mission, a peacewas negotiated. Though San Vitores chose to emu-

late Saint Francis Xavier, who did not use soldiers in hismissionization efforts in India, as his model priest, herecognized that a military presence would be necessaryto protect the priests serving Guam.

In 1672, San Vitores ordered Churches built infour villages, includingMerizo. Later that year, Chamorroresistance increased, led byMakahnasand Kakahnas(indigenous priests and priestesses) from the Chamorri(high caste) who would lose their leadership position and


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tate shouted back that he was an-gry with God and was already fedup with the Christian teachings.

Determined to kill the mission-

aries, Matapang went away andtried to enlist in his cause another

villager, named Hirao, who was nota Christian.

At first, Hirao refused, mindfulof the kindness of the missionariestowards the natives; but whenMatapang branded him a coward,he got piqued and so he consented.Meanwhile, during that brief ab-sence of Matapang from his hut,Padre Diego and Pedro took thechance of baptizing the infant,

with the consent of the Christianmother.

When Matapang learned of thebaptism, he became even more fu-rious. He violently hurled spearsfirst at Pedro. The lad skirted the

darting spears with remarkabledexterity. The witnesses said thatPedro had all the chances to escapebecause he was very agile, but hedid not want to leave Padre Diegoalone.

Those who knew Pedro person-ally believed that he would havedefeated his fierce aggressors and

HeadsUp March 2012 Page 19 Thepositio, which relied heavily on the documentation of

San Vitores's beatification, was completed in 1999.Blessed John Paul II, wanting to include young Asian lay-

persons in his first beatification for the Jubilee Year 2000,

paid particular attention to the cause of Calungsod. In Janu-ary 2000, he approved the decree super martyrio (concerningthe martyrdom) of Calungsod, setting his beatification onMarch 5, 2000 at Saint Peter's Square in Rome.

Regarding Calungsod's charitable works and virtuousdeeds, Pope John Paul II declared:

...From his childhood, Pedro Calungsod declaredhimself unwaveringly for Christ and responded generouslyto his call. Young people today can draw encouragementand strength from the example of Pedro, whose love of Je-

sus inspired him to devote his teenage years to teaching thefaith as a lay catechist. Leaving family and friends behind,Pedro willingly accepted the challenge put to him by Fr.Diego de San Vitores to join him on the Mission to theChamorros. In a spirit of faith, marked by strong Eucharis-tic and Marian devotion, Pedro undertook the demanding

work asked of him and bravely faced the many obstaclesand difficulties he met. In the face of imminent danger,Pedro would not forsake Fr. Diego, but as a good soldierof Christ preferred to die at the missionary's side.

SainthoodOn 19 December 2011, the Holy See officially approved

the miracle qualifying Calungsod for sainthood by the Ro-man Catholic Church. The recognized miracle dates from2002, when a Leyte woman who was pronounced clinicallydead by accredited physicians two hours after a heart attack

was revived when a doctor prayed for Calungsod's interces-sion.

Cardinal Angelo Amato presided over the declarationceremony on behalf of the Congregation for the Causes ofSaints. He later revealed that Pope Benedict XVI approvedand signed the official promulgation decrees recognising themiracles as authentic and worthy of belief.

The College of Cardinals were then sent a dossier on thenew saints, and they were asked to indicate their approval.On 18 February 2012, after the Consistory for the Creationof Cardinals, Cardinal Amato formally petitioned PopeBenedict XVI to announce the canonization of the newsaints. The Pope set the date for 21 October 2012


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would have freed both himselfand Padre Diego if only he hadsome weapons because he wasa very vbrave boy; but PadreDiego never allowed his com-panions to carry arms.

Finally, Pedro got hit by a

spear at the chest and he fell tothe ground.

Hirao immediately chargedtowards him and finished himoff with a blow of a cutlass onthe head. Padre Diego gavePedro the sacramental absolu-tion. After that, the assassinsalso killed Padre Diego.

Matapang took the crucifixof Padre Diego and pounded itwith a stone while blasphemingGod. Then, both assassins de-nuded the bodies of Pedro andPadre Diego, dragged them tothe edge of the shore, tied largestones to the feet of these,brought them on a proa to seaand threw them into the deep.

Those remains of the martyrswere never to be found again.

In the Roman CatholicChurch, Calungsod's death andChristian martyrdom is alsocalled In Odium Fideior In Ha-tred of the Faith, signifying thereligious persecution enduredby the martyr in evangelizing.

Beatification

A year after the martyrdomof San Vitores and Calungsod,a process for beatification wasinitiated but only for San Vi-tores. Political and religious tur-moil, however, delayed andeventually killed the process.

In 1981, when Agaa was

preparing for its 20th anniversary as a diocese, the 1673 beatifi-cation cause of Padre Diego Lus de San Vitores was rediscov-ered in the old manuscripts and taken up anew until PadreDiego was finally beatified on October 6, 1985. It was his beati-fication that brought the memory of Pedro to our day.

In 1994, then Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidalasked permission from the Vatican to initiate a cause for beati-

fication and canonization of Pedro Calungsod.In March 1997, the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of

Saints approved theActaof the Diocesan Process for the Be-atification of Pedro Calungsod. That same year, Cardinal Vidalappointed Fr. Ildebrando Jesus A. Leyson as vice-postulator forthe cause and was tasked with the compilation of a Positio Su-per Martyrio to be scrutinized by the Sacred Congregation forthe Causes of Saints in Rome.


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After Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, Calungsod will be the secondFilipino declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.

The Roman Catholic calendar of Martyrology celebratesCalungsod's feast along with Blessed Diego Luis de San Vi-

tores every 2 April.Iconography

No one really knows how Calungsod looked like. "Thewriter Alcina, who was a contemporary of Pedro Calung-sod, described the male Visayan indios of his time as usuallymore corpulent, better built and somewhat taller than the

Tagalogs in Luzon; that their skin was light brown in color;that their faces were usually round and of fine proportions;that their noses were flat; that their eyes and hair were black;that they especially the youthwore their hair a little bitlong; and that they already started to wear camisas(shirts)and calzones(knee-breeches). Pedro Chirino, S.J., who also

worked in the Visayas but in the 1590's, also described theVisayans as well-built, of pleasing countenance and light-skinned."

Calungsod is often depicted as a young man wearing acamisa de chino. He holds the martyr's palm, indicating hisdeath, or sometimes a crucifix, catechism book or rosary,representing his missionary work. In some early statues,

Calungsod is sometimes shown with a spear and catana(cutlass), the instruments of his death.The first portraits of Pedro Calungsod were drawings

done by the award-winning artist, sculptor, and designerEduardo Castrillo in 1994 in connection with the Heritageof Cebu Monument in Parian. A bronze statue of Calung-sod was created and now forms part of the monument.

Sculptors Francisco dela Victoria and Vicente Gulane ofCebu and Justino Cagayat Jr. of Paete, Laguna, created stat-ues of Calungsod in 1997 and 1999 respectively.

In 1998, when the Archdiocese of Manila published thepamphlet Pedro Calungsod: Young Visayan "Proto-Martyr"bythe Jesuit theologian Catalino Arevalo, one Ronald Tubid,then 17 years old, from Oton, Iloilo, was chosen as stand-infor Calungsod.

This then became the basis for Rafael del Casal's paintingin 1999, which was chosen as the official portrait forCalungsod. The original painting is now enshrined at the

Archdiocesan Shrine of Blessed Pedro Calungsod in Cebu.


A Timely Saint for our TimesIn a confused era such as that

existing today where secular hu-manism and extreme liberal valueshave infested our young genera-tions, and naked socialism havebeen subverting our constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms, PedroCalungsod and his saintly couragecomes as a fresh air of hope.

Pedro was definitely selfless andindustrious, a stark contradiction tothe addiction to entitlement that welive in. There is no doubt that he

was loyal to his Christian faith, heunderstood the importance and ur-gency of evangelization, and that he

was not only willing to abandon hiscomfort zones, young as he was

with a long bright future elsewhere,but mission-ready to take extraordi-nary risks in pursuing his share ofthe Great Commission.

For this, he surely serves our

young ministries of a champion forthe glory of God.

But as we find ourselves beinggoodtimed by oppressive govern-ments towards the altar of abortionand onto a culture of death, PedroCalungsod is also our icon forstanding firm before.

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Paglinawan said

that both Presidents Aquinoand Obama "are engaged in

verbal engineeringby executive fiat Obama calls it pre-

ventive medical care, Aquinopursues it through congres-

sional legislation as essentialmedicines and supplies.""Proponents say the RH

bill does not include abortionyet it provides for post-abortion intervention. Mostabortions in the Philippinesare passed on as DNCs(dilation and curettage proce-dure for miscarriages)," she

explained."The Obama fiat can be

easily overturned if a Repub-lican president assumes the

White House in November.The proposed reproductivehealth legislation in the Phil-ippines is driving us into thesame slippery slope that theUS brought itself into," Paglinawan added.

"The American experiencehas gone almost 360 degrees.Meanwhile, the Philippines isbeing lured into a disaster,"she argued.

"We are grateful to Presi-dent Obama for unitingthe Catholics to not vote

to pay for abortion-inducing drugs, contracep-

tives and sterilization fortheir workers, if they wished toget them.

He instead lifted the man-date for faith-based entities butstill ordered insurance compa-nies covering these organiza-tions to provide the servicefree of charge.

"The administrations pro-posal continues to involveneedless government intrusionin the internal governance ofreligious institutions," wroteCardinal Donald Wuerl in anopinion piece published by the

Washington Post."Obama," Paglinawan ech-

oed, "did not really cave in to

the demands of the CatholicChurch or faith-based groupsobjecting to the mandatory in-clusion of religious institutionsin the Obamacare coverage forfree contraception.:

The problem is that its notreally free because the em-ployer's religious institutionstill pays for his share of the

insurance premium, Paglina-wan insisted.

"The accommodation thatthe President announced stillpresents grave moral concernsand continues to violate ourconstitutionally protected reli-gious freedom," Cardinal

Wuerl declared.

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OUROURRELIGIOUSRELIGIOUSFREEDOMSFREEDOMSByRodneyJalecoABSCBNNewsNorthAmericaBureau,

March3,

2012

WASHINGTON D.C. -Some Filipino-American pro-life advocates warn that Presi-dent Benigno Aquino III maybe walking the same path thatrecently forced PresidentBarack Obama to retreat fromrequiring church-run busi-nesses to provide abortion and

contraceptive services to theirworkers.

Aquino supports the pas-sage of the controversial Re-productive Health (RH) billpending in the Philippine Con-gress. Obamas own woes, lead-ing to a clash with the influen-tial Catholic bishops in theUnited States, stems from im-plementation of health insur-ance reforms, the so-called"Obamacare."

"Both renders the manda-tory and free distribution ofcontraceptives and abortifa-cient pills and aggressively al-lows the use of taxpayersmoney for funding," Margi

Paglinawan, a leader of theCouples for Christ Foundationfor Family & Life (CFCFFL) inthe Metro DC region.

Obama backtracked from aDepartment of Health & Hu-man Services mandate that

would compel church-runschools, hospitals and charities


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for him in November," sheadded.

But a Reuters reportshowed that the bishops

hardline stand has shined alight on the already existingschism between what thechurch preaches and what itpractices.

While the US Conferenceof Catholic Bishops vowed tofight the federal mandate,other Catholic groups includ-ing the Catholic Health Asso-

ciation have distanced itselfand accepted PresidentObamas compromise.

"The bishops have losttheir monopoly on speaking,"Reuters quoted GeorgetownUniversity theologian Fr. Tho-mas Reese.

It was discovered in theheat of the religious uproarthat several large Catholic in-stitutions like Georgetown,

Fordham and DePaul univer-sities already covered contra-ception in employee insuranceplans.

"We welcome increaseddebates on life issues here inthe US as well as in the Philip-pines," Paglinawan said.

"It is constructive becausewe work closely with the

Catholic Church on these is-sues. In Washington D.C., weare directly collaborating withChrista Lopiccolo, executivedirector for life issues in the

Archdiocese of Washington,"she explained.

"What weve observed is the

more abortion debate gets heated,the more the cause of abortionweakens," she said.

In the Philippines, the RH billhas made little progress despite

several determined attempts topass it in Congress. Catholic bish-ops have periodically fired broad-sides against Aquino for continuingto support the measure.

And here in the U.S., the abor-tion debate does not show anysigns of subsiding even afterObamas compromise offer.Groups like the CFCFFL intend toturn it into a campaign issue for theFall elections.

In 2008, Obama won 54 per-cent of the Catholic vote.

Catholics comprise about aquarter of the U.S. population andhave significant presence in pro-spective 2012 battleground stateslike Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wis-consin.


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o n R H b y M a r ch 23 ?o n R H b y M a r ch 2 3? MANILA, Philippines -The leadership of the Houseof Representatives is schedul-ing a crucial vote on the con-troversial reproductive health(RH) or responsible parent-hood and population develop-ment bill.

Majority Leader NeptaliGonzales II told reportersyesterday that he has sug-gested to Speaker FelicianoBelmonte Jr. that the House

vote to terminate debates be-fore Congress goes on its five-

week Lenten break on March23. The Speaker has alreadyagreed to my suggestion, he

said.At some point, we have to

put an end to the interminablediscussions. This bill cannotcontinue to be in a state ofsuspended animation.

He said the debates havebeen going in circles, but still,there are about 20 moreHouse members wanting to

be enlightened about themeasure.

He said that a vote to termi-nate plenary debates means theRH bill has a chance of eventualapproval.

If the other side prevails,then the bill will continue to bein limbo and we might have to

equally important measures, headded.

Gonzales pointed out that ifthe House decides to end therepetitive discussions on theRH bill before its Lenten re-cess, it would consider amend-ments when session resumes onMay 7.

We might be able to take asecond-reading vote on it be-fore the next adjournment onJune 8, he added.

At least one author of thebill, Pangasinan Rep. Kimi Co-juangco, has urged House lead-ers to exercise their power ofcloture or power to forceending of debate on thoseopposed to the measure so thata vote could finally be taken.

The reproductive health andpopulation management meas-ure is one of the legislative pri-orities of President Aquino. Itsproponents have urged Aquinoto take a more active role inpushing for its approval by theHouse, which is dominated byadministration allies.

He should show the samezeal in pushing for it as in get-ting impeached Chief JusticeRenato Corona convicted, oneproponent, who did not wantto be identified, said.

The lawmaker said unless thePresident personally inter-venes and calls his allies, this

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