The Dichotomous Legacy of the Catholic Church's Opposition to the Philippine Revolution of 1896
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5028152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennis Shoesmith (University Professorial Fellow, Charles Darwin University, Ellengowan Drive, Casuarina, NT 0810, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 502-518 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770.2020.1761627 |
| OpenAlex | W3025103510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article examines the repositioning of the Catholic Church in the aftermath of the Philippine Revolution of 1896–98, during the transfer of Spanish to American colonial rule. It reviews the consultations between the outgoing Spanish bishops and the Vatican’s Apostolic Delegate, Placido Chapelle, in January 1900, and the subsequent religious settlement promulgated in the Vatican’s Apostolic Constitution for the Philippine Church, Quae mari Sinico, in 1902. The Delegate’s identification with the Spanish bishops and their opposition to Filipino nationalist aspirations and the Filipino secular clergy confirmed the anti-Filipino position of the Church in the American colonial period. Both the Filipino bishops and the American bishops opposed independence and distrusted the nationalist leaders as anti-clerical Masons. This is followed by a discussion of the claimed reconciliation of Church and Filipino political aspirations in the post-Vatican II period in the 1960s, which culminated in the Church’s role in bringing down President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. Committed to a theology of social justice, the bishops now aligned the Church with progressive democratic nationalists. In its successful opposition to the Marcos dictatorship in the name of “People’s Power,” the hierarchy claimed that through the “Miracle of EDSA” the Church had identified with and indeed represented the political will of the Filipino people
Bishops · Delegate · Democracy · Dictatorship · Holy See · Nationalism · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Religious studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Religious Studies
Revolutionary Clergy
The Popes in the Twentieth Century
Philippine Life in Town and Country
The Corazon Aquino "Miracle" and the Philippine Churches
The Hispanization of the Philippines. Spanish Aims and Filipino Responses 1565-1700
The Philippines After Marcos
The Political and Constitutional Ideas of the Philippine Revolution
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |