Priests on gun license: No thanks

The government considered the welfare of priests – who, for authorities, remain “in imminent danger” – when it allowed them to carry firearms outside their houses under Republic Act 10591, which President Benigno Aquino III signed last May 29. Catholic bishops, however, gave this legal provision the cold shoulder, stressing that priests, as “men of peace,” shouldn’t own firearms. The law classified priests as among those “under actual threat” or “in imminent danger,” allowing them among the few to carry firearms outside their houses. At least 3 Catholic bishops said priests shouldn’t use weapons for self defense since priests should “imitate Christ.”


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