Dissentire cum Ecclesia: Healthy and Unhealthy Dissent in the Context of Catholic Education

In his article “The Juridic Protection of the Church Teaching against Contraception,”1 Jaime Blanco Achacoso, a canon lawyer, responded to an email from a certain reader concerning a column by Atty. Jose C. Sison in the Philippine Star. In the said column, a certain Jose Teodoro Sagalo alerted the columnist to a “grave error that the Loyola School of Theology has posted in the Ateneo website endorsed earlier by Bienvenido Nebres, S.J., Ateneo President, for reaction, and now endorsed by Roberto Rivera, S.J., of the John Carroll Institute.”2 The matter in question here is the “Talking Points for Dialogue on the Reproductive Health Bill”3 document prepared by moral theologian