Bishops `suppressed evidence'

Action by leading Filipino bishops last year prevented the United States Catholic Conference from submitting evidence of violations of human rights in the Philippines to the American Congress, it was revealed recently.
The evidence was based on a report by Fr Bryan Hehir, USCC associate secretary for International justice and peace, who visited the Philippines last April.
However, Cardinal Rosales, president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, said that Fr Hehir had gone with "an already biased and prejudiced mind."
In a letter sent in November to Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Cincinnati, as the then president of the USCC, Cardinal Rosales said: "It seemed that what Fr Hehir wanted was just a confirmation of what he had already in mind, namely violations of human rights in the Philippines."
The report included an account of conversations Fr Hehir had had with Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila; Bishop Cirilo Almario, secretary general of the Philippines Bishops' Conference, and Bishop Mariano Gaviola, the military vicar.
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