Catholic-Backed Truth Commission Seeks Duterte Drug War Justice
EWTN News portal reports on a Catholic-backed truth commission launched in the Philippines to investigate the thousands of killings during former President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war. Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David serves as adviser to the Philippine Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which aims to document evidence and provide a “credible truth record” for victims and survivors. The commission includes human rights activists, a forensic pathologist, and a Vincentian priest, with plans to establish accountability and healing for affected families. This initiative, while ostensibly pursuing justice, operates entirely within the framework of secular human rights discourse, ignoring the supernatural dimensions of sin, repentance, and the ultimate judgment of God, thereby reducing the Church’s mission to mere social activism.


