Miriam Santiago is 'Worthy of the Fires of Hell' According to Fr. Arevalo
Miriam Santiago may be a force to be reckoned with inside the impeachment courty but according to a priest, she's "worthy of the fires of hell."Fr. Catalino Arevalo, known as the spiritual adviser of the late President Cory Aquino, said Senator Santiago should issue a public apology for her inappropriate tirades against the House prosecutors during the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
“If you call anybody ‘you fool,’ you are worthy of the fires of hell. And she called them gago, which is Filipino for fool, before millions of people,” Fr. Arevalo said.
With regards to the "hell" comment, the priest at the historic Our Lady of Edsa Shrine said it was Jesus who said that and not him.
Although the priest did not mention the name of the feisty Senator, Fr. Arevalo's clue gave it instantly.
“Well, that was before millions of people. So she is, in conscience, bound to make a formal apology before millions of people if God will forgive her. That’s the teaching of Jesus. You don’t do that, and if you do that, you have to retract it by making a formal apology before millions of people, otherwise you remain worthy of the fires of hell,” he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Meanwhile, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago answered Fr. Arevalo's tirade in her recent radio interview by saying that she doesn't need to apologize to anybody.
“They want me to change my personality. Hindi na possible ‘yan because I was born this way eh,” she said.
