Philippine President Duterte is taking more steps to assure that women have access to birth control.  It is ..ironic?... that someone who I would hope would not be supported for some of his views is someone I hope the Philippine people support for other views.  Duterte is right on birth control for poor women.  Getting access to birth control for poor people has been a long, long battle in the Philippines.  Even though it has been widely supported by most of the very Catholic Filipino people for decades, it has been fought by the Catholic bishops.  And they have been winning that battle until the last few years.

I think, in the long run, that bishops are going to lose even more respect and trust because of how they want to exercise power within a democracy.  I am certainly sick of the "culture wars" here and I fear their tearing at the fabric of equality in the public spaces.  

I think bishops are right on some issues and wrong on others - sorta like Duterte.  That is a sad comment.