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Pamil vs. Teleron [SEPARATE OPINION, MAKASIAR, J.]

FORTUNATO R. PAMIL, petitioner-appellant, vs. HONORABLE VICTORINO C. TELERON, as Judge of the Court of First Instance of Bohol, Branch III, and REV. FR. MARGARITO R. GONZAGA, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. L-34854 | 1978-11-20

SEPARATE OPINION
 
MAKASIAR, J.:
 
It grieves me to dissent on constitutional and legal grounds from my brilliant and learned colleagues, Justice Enrique M. Fernando, Justice Claudio Teehankee and Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma, whose scholarly dissertations always command respect; because my discussion will be a catalogue of the dangers posed by the Church in which I was born and nurtured, like my two sons and two daughters - the Roman Catholic Church, in whose service my late lamented father wanted to be, studying as he did for the priesthood in a Catholic seminary.
 
I fully concur with the no less incisive opinions of...