Amalgamation of Church and State

By: Maria Zamantha Gatchalian

Amalgamation of Church and State

Amalgamation From the dictionary it means Unity The unity of the Church and State

Spanish Regime
The Spanish Clergy are one of the cause of the Disunity of the Church and State. As pointed out by the laborantes (reformers) and the revolucionarios that the Church meddled in the; 1. the Government Affairs 2. Press censorship

Malolos Constitution

The separation of Church and State is said to be one of the most outstanding innovations of the Malolos Constituition in 1898 The Malolos Constitution is a Filipino legal document codifying the basic law of the First Philippine Republic. It is both the twelfth such charter to be implemented in the Philippine archipelago and the first to written as the framework of an independent nation.

It was written by Felipe Caldern y Roca and Felipe Buencamino as an alternative to a pair of unsatisfying proposals tendered to the Malolos Congress by Apolinario Mabini and Pedro Paterno. After a lengthy debate, taking up much of the latter part of 1898, it was finally enacted with minor modifications on 21 January, 1899.

March 1, 1883
In Manila, the first and only anti-friars demonstration against the intolerable Church abuse. Led by Doroteo Cortes aided secretly by Marcelo H, Del Pilar and Jose Ramos Ishikawa

Article 218 of the newly passed Penal Code

This article vouch for the right of petition and assembly, a group of influential gobernadorcillos, principales, and residents of Manila boldly marched through the streets of the city to the Ayuntamento (city hall) demanding the expulsion of friars in the Philippines, including Archbishop Pedro Psyo himself, demostrators manifesto declared Long live the Queen! Long live the Army! Down with the Friars.

High influence of the church on the state was exposed by the Filipinos

Marcelo H, Del Pilar who deriavely called the situation in the Philippines la soberania monacal or monastic supremacy or frailocracia or friarocracy

Spanish Clergy
Spanish friars ruled supreme, even over the government. the most important official dominating the town As one Filipino pointed out they werent just spiritual guides or parish priest but the rulers of the municipalities. The whole government of the islands rested on them. Many of their abuse led to the revulotion of 1896 - 1898

Powers of the Friars

The friars control all the fundamental forces. * They control the education system * Local inspectors * Minds of the people * They control all the municipal and local authorities * Medium of communication * Execute all the orders of the central government

967 regulars priest - priests who belong to a religious order 675 seculers priest - priest who did not belong to any religious orders

Landowners

The most persistent complaint leveled by the Filipinos against the Church was their economic role.

Particularly are the : Dominicans Augustinians The Recollects

Philippine Revolution centered in the areas where the vast haciendas or friars estates thrived. These places are: Cavite Laguna Bulacan Morong Manila Province

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