VERA Files
What can the Catholic Church do to preserve the solemn observance of the Holy Week and attract more people to participate in the Lenten activities?
Facebook (FB) pages are sharing a video that claims Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle was removed by Pope Francis from Caritas Internationalis (CI) for misusing church money. This is not true. Posted on Nov. 26, the misleading seven-minute video carried the caption: “KAHAY0PAN NG D1LAWANG CARDINAL NADlSKUBRE | TAGLE KlNARMA SA PAGWALDAS NG PERA SINIPA NG […]
He did not refer to Marcos, Robredo, or any other candidate in his message.
The remark has been wrongly connected to the priest as early as December and recently revived on FB from Feb. 17 to Mar. 2.
The president has made no such orders against the Manila auxiliary bishop.
The piece is not real news.
The story came from a website that describes itself as “the world’s best satire site.”
It sews together two unrelated statements from Moreno and Pabillo to support the false claim.
It twisted the clergyman’s statement about the denial of ABS-CBN’s bid for a new franchise.
Gnbc.news’ story is over eight years old and it misleads readers because it is being shared amid fresh allegations of corruption within the PCSO.