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    The Rizal Law of 1956, also known as Republic Act No. 1425, mandates that all educational institutions in the Philippines offer courses about Jose Rizal, including his novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. Senator Claro M. Recto was the main proponent of the bill. However, the Roman Catholic Church strongly opposed the measure due to the anti-clerical themes in Rizal's novels. While groups like Catholic Action of the Philippines organized against the bill, others like Veteranos de la Revolucion and the Knights of Rizal supported it. The bill was eventually passed despite opposition from some senators.

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    The Rizal Law of 1956, also known as Republic Act No. 1425, mandates that all educational institutions in the Philippines offer courses about Jose Rizal, including his novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. Senator Claro M. Recto was the main proponent of the bill. However, the Roman Catholic Church strongly opposed the measure due to the anti-clerical themes in Rizal's novels. While groups like Catholic Action of the Philippines organized against the bill, others like Veteranos de la Revolucion and the Knights of Rizal supported it. The bill was eventually passed despite opposition from some senators.

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    The Rizal Law of 1956, also known as Republic Act No. 1425, mandates that all educational institutions in the Philippines offer courses about Jose Rizal, including his novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. Senator Claro M. Recto was the main proponent of the bill. However, the Roman Catholic Church strongly opposed the measure due to the anti-clerical themes in Rizal's novels. While groups like Catholic Action of the Philippines organized against the bill, others like Veteranos de la Revolucion and the Knights of Rizal supported it. The bill was eventually passed despite opposition from some senators.

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    Controversy over the RIZAL LAW of 1956

    The RIZAL Centennial (1861-1961)


    RIZAL LAW
     also known as REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1425
     mandates all educational institutions in the Philippines to offer courses about José Rizal.
     The full name of the law is An Act to Include in the Curricula of All Public and Private Schools, Colleges
    and Universities Courses On the Life, Works and Writings of Jose Rizal, Particularly His Novels Noli Me
    Tangere and El Filibusterismo, Authorizing the Printing and Distribution Thereof, and for Other
    Purposes.
     Senator Claro M. Recto was the main proponent of the Rizal Bill.
     The Republic Act was signed by the President that time, Fidel V. Ramos, on June 12, 1956

    THE CONTROVERSY
    The measure was strongly opposed by the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines due

    to the anti-clerical themes in Noli Me Tángere and El Filibusterismo. During the 1955 Senate

    election, the church charged Recto with being a communist and an anti-Catholic. After Recto's

    election, the Church continued to oppose the bill mandating the reading of Rizal's novels Noli

    Me Tángere and El Filibusterismo, claiming it would violatefreedom of

    conscience and religion.

    In the campaign to oppose the Rizal bill, the Catholic Church urged its adherents to write to

    their congressmen and senators showing their opposition to the bill; later, it organized

    symposiums. In one of these symposiums, Fr. Jesus Cavanna argued that the novels belonged

    to the past and that teaching them would misrepresent current conditions. Radio commentator

    Jesus Paredes also said that Catholics had the right to refuse to read them as it would "endanger

    their salvation".

    Groups such as Catholic Action of the Philippines, the Congregation of the Mission,

    the Knights of Columbus, and the Catholic Teachers Guild organized opposition to the bill; they

    were countered by Veteranos de la Revolucion (Spirit of 1896), Alagad in Rizal, the

    Freemasons, and the Knights of Rizal. The Senate Committee on Education sponsored a bill co-written by both
    José P. Laurel and Recto, with the only opposition coming from Francisco Soc Rodrigo, Mariano Jesús Cuenco,
    and Decoroso Rosales.

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