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    The document summarizes Marcelo H. del Pilar's views on monarchism and the Catholic Church's influence in the Philippines. Del Pilar argues that the friars wield power over Filipinos and the government refrains from reforming church-run schools. He also asserts that the clergy uses religion to financially exploit people through mandatory funeral services and collections, impoverishing many families. According to del Pilar, Filipinos could not easily speak out against or obtain justice from the regular clergy who abused their power.

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    The document summarizes Marcelo H. del Pilar's views on monarchism and the Catholic Church's influence in the Philippines. Del Pilar argues that the friars wield power over Filipinos and the government refrains from reforming church-run schools. He also asserts that the clergy uses religion to financially exploit people through mandatory funeral services and collections, impoverishing many families. According to del Pilar, Filipinos could not easily speak out against or obtain justice from the regular clergy who abused their power.

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    Monarchism in the Philippines Marcelo H.

    D el Pilar It has always been said that the friar handles the Filipino as he pleases. Based on this assumption, the government abstains from emancipating the schools in the Philippines from theocratic monarchal tutelage. Orally and in writing, in the pulpits as well as in diocesan pastorals, dogmas, rites and all the most sacred things were very subtly invoked by the clergy in defense of their casual [financial] collections. Funeral services and ceremonies, whatever these may cost, are an imposition on the Filipino people. And we can cite thousands of cases when a lack of means to p ay for funeral ceremonies had made destitute orphans shed bitter tears. The poor has swallowed all these abuses in silence, for it cannot but accept that in the Philippines it requires great effort to reveal the truth and it has always been difficult, if n ot impossible, to obtain justice when the defendants belong to the regular clergy. Marcelo H. del Pilar, Frailocracy in the Philippines, trans. by Leonor Grava (Manila: National Historical Institute, 2009), pp. 47 51

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