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Remembering two Filipino priests who disappeared without trace
Father Rudy Romano and Father Conrado de la Cruz paid the ultimate price for helping the poor and downtrodden
Updated: July 11, 2021 06:13 AM GMT
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Where are you, brother, during such a long time? Where are you, brother? The powerful have to answer … We will never stop until we find you.”
Bishop Emmanuel Cabajar composed this verse to pay tribute to his Redemptorist brother, Father Rudy Romano, who was forcibly disappeared in Labangon, Cebu City, 36 years ago today. The priest has never been found.
July 11 comes and goes generally unnoticed. Except for the Redemptorist community and friends and colleagues of Father Rudy, the Catholic Philippines has seemingly forgotten the injustice committed against this man of the cloth who, like the Most Holy Redeemer, gave his life for the ransom of many. Poverty, injustice, human rights violations, absence of genuine peace these were the very reasons why he li