Rose de los Reyes (Seattle, WA) has left a new comment on your post "YES. AND RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN DIOCESE. MANY KNOW....":
In his book, “Altar of Secrets” (2013), former "Manila Times" and "Newsbreak Magazine" journalist, Aries C. Rufo who, for many years in his career was assigned to the religion beat of the Manila Times, chronicles among other things, the unpunished sexual misconduct and financial mismanagement of the Philippines’ bishops and priests. Mr. Rufo writes that there is some degree of acceptance in certain sectors of Philippines society of priests fathering children that this condition seems to have lost its shock value. The Archdiocese of Manila even has an allocation for financial support to children fathered by members of the clergy. He didn’t identify it by name to maintain the privacy of the children, but he writes about a gated orphanage in Manila run by nuns. Some of the children in that orphanage are children fathered by Catholic priests. In 2012 when he pressed the nun in charge of that orphanage to confirm this report, the nun replied that it was not the issue for the orphanage, “The issue is to give these children a decent future.” Her response skirted the issue. “Altar of Secrets” (“Altar”) covers in detail the sexual misconduct of Bishops Crisostomo Yalung and Teodoro Bacani --- proteges of the late Manila Cardinal Jaime Sin; both former auxiliary bishops of Manila; both educators and administrators of San Carlos Seminary. Bishop Yalung was a most-sought-after inspirational speaker, a media personality and a public figure largely active in political affairs. Bishop Bacani was an active member of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting. In the span of one year (2002 and 2003), Cardinal Sin lost these of his most favored bishops to successive scandals: Bishop Yalung for fathering two children and Bishop Bacani for “an inappropriate display of affection” to his former secretary.
