Cebu archdiocesan denies Vidal signed "One Voice" Manifesto on Charter Change

Ricardo Jamin Cardinal Vidal

Function: Archbishop of Cebu, Philippines

Title: Cardinal Priest of Ss Pietro e Paolo a Via Ostiense

Birthdate: Feb 06, 1931	Country: Philippines

Elevated: May 25, 1985	More information: www.catholic-hierarchy.org

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Cebu archdiocesan denies Vidal signed "One Voice" Manifesto on Charter Change
Jul 03, 2006
Cebu Archdiocesan spokesman on Saturday denied reports that Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal signed the "One Voice Manifesto" against Charter Change.

(Cebu News, July 01 2006) Monsignor Achilles Dakay, Cebu archdiocesan media liaison officer, in a radio interview, said Cardinal Vidal had never signed the manifesto.

He said former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman and One Voice convenor Christian Monsod furnished him a copy of the manifesto but Cardinal Vidal did not sign it.

Organizers of One Voice, a non-partisan group calling for social reforms and the discontinuance of the Charter change (Cha-Cha) initiative, earlier announced that more groups and individuals, including Cardinal Vidal, have declared their support for the movement.

One Voice, Monsod said, offers a five-point proposal to break the current political impasse -- discontinue the present people's initiative to amend the Charter; launching of a social reform program; elections in 2007 as scheduled as an indirect referendum on the current administration; if necessary, a Constitutional Convention after the election; and a collective effort to rebuild the trustworthiness of democratic institutions.

The former Comelec chief reiterated One Voice's position for unity around peaceful and constitutional process that would strengthen, rather than endanger, the country's democratic institutions. (PNA)

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