You know Metro Manila traffic is hell when the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) complains about it.
“Fr. Edu Gariguez, executive secretary of the CBCP National Secretariat for Social Action says that priests are on call, so they should be granted exemption from the scheme because priests need mobility—especially with the anticipated heavy traffic in the major roads in Metro Manila due to the Skyway 3 extension project,” reports Edu Punay in The Philippine Star.
Gariguez reasoned, “We need total mobility that’s why if possible we want to be exempted from coding because the work of a priest doesn’t have a fixed time. For example, there is a sick call, somebody died or somebody is in a life and death situation…we priests need to be there right away to cater to their pastoral needs.”
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