Catholicism in the Philippines

During the 16th century, Spain conquered the Philippines with the sword in one arm and the cross on the other. The arm that held the sword had been cut away, as it were. The arm that holds the cross is still very much secured and solid in this already 21st century. This has been made possible by the ownership of vast number of schools, colleges, and universities operated (tax-free) by the Catholic church. Yearly, such commercial enterprises produce not well-informed Filipinos as good citizens of the Philippines; specially to defend, protect, and promote nationalism; but produces only more devout and faithful Catholics taught to defend, protect, and to promote first and foremost - Catholicism in the Philippines. Poch Suzara