Status Updates From Smaller and Smaller Circles

"When you quietly move a priest from a diocese where he has victimized two or three young parishioners to a new diocese where he is at liberty to do the same thing again, you're not building up your credibility; you're just postponing the day when you lose it." 💅

"The Church enjoys the trust and confidence of many Filipinos. It has its defects, its failings—no institution is without them—but it has credibility."

"But your Eminience, is it a credibility built on what people don't know, rather than what they do know? If it is then, that isn't really credibility at all, is it?"

"I think as soon as a priest crosses the line into molestation and sexual abuse, it becomes a civil matter, a law enforcement matter and and a matter for the country's courts."

Philippine law enforcers being called out? Definitely, my cup of tea 👀

Philippine law enforcements being called out? Definitely, my cup of tea! 👀

i see... so that was actually what desparecidos meant 😨

"That’s the nature of any kind of rot. If you don’t stop it, it keeps going. It will keep going until it destroys the very organism that feeds it.”

Reading for Wikathon.

I loved the film adaptation of this book and so far I find I'm really fascinated by the book as well.

Like everyone had said before, we don't have a lot of Filipino serial killer novels... so reading this is, in a way, fun!