Word: sinfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thousands of mourners had filed past his glass-covered coffin in suburban Manila. Countless tears had been shed; calls for insurrection had been voiced. Finally, there were only simple things left to say over the body of the murdered folk hero before it was laid to rest. Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila, knew that well as he stood in front of a quiet crowd of mourners in the Quezon City Church of Santo Domingo. The prelate gazed upon the remains of Philippine Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., and announced the theme of the funeral oration that would...
...Sin's invocation was first of all a prayer for the soul of the bloodied corpse before him: the earthly remains of the country's most famous and charismatic opponent-in-exile of the authoritarian rule of visibly ailing President Ferdinand Marcos, 65. Long regarded as Marcos' presidential successor before the country's strongman declared martial law in 1972, Aquino spent 7½A years in Philippine jails on charges of murder, illegal possession of firearms and subversion, and three more years of exile in the U.S. Ignoring innumerable threats and an official death sentence against...
...Sin's funeral refrain was also intended as a call for reconciliation in the populous (53 million) Philippines, which may face its worst political crisis in decades because of Aquino's murder. The assassination seared the country's consciousness and may have dealt a mortal blow to the idea of a nonviolent and nonmilitary succession in the Philippines after Marcos. The prospect of upheaval, in turn, threatens vital U.S. interests in the strategic islands...
...date, if the Marcos government is indeed implicated. At midweek Marcos announced the formation of a five-member fact-finding judicial commission to probe the assassination. Critics charged at once that the commission, which contained no opposition figures, is unlikely to be impartial. Marcos named the very independent Cardinal Sin to the panel, but the respected prelate refused to participate. Publicly, the Cardinal pleaded conflicting religious duties. Privately, an aide reportedly claimed, he felt he would be a "voice in the wilderness...
Your story also says that once before my "professional conduct" was criticized. Your readers might be interested in knowing that my sin against the profession was ... giving then President-elect Reagan a meal...