CBCP names delegates to family meet

The CBCP Commission on Family and Life is sending an official delegation to the World Meeting of Families (WMF) with Pope Benedict XVI in Valencia, Spain to be held from July 1 to 9.

Archbishop Paciano Aniceto, head of the Family Life Commission, appointed Most Rev. Jose Oliveros, Bishop of Malolos, as chair of the delegation; and Ma. Fenny C. Tatad as Lead Lay Delegate.

Bishop Ramon Villena of the Diocese of Bayombong and Atty. Jo Aurea Imbong of the CBCP Legal Office will also join as CBCP delegates. Ricardo Cardinal Vidal and Frank and Geraldine Padilla of the Couples for Christ will join the WMF as part of the Holy See delegation.

The Family and Life Commission has also invited Senator and Mrs Aquilino Pimentel, Former Senator Francisco S. Tatad, Congressman and Mrs. Edmund O. Reyes, and Congressman Abraham Mitra to join the delegation.

According to Mrs. Tatad the following represent the various groups in the Church: CFM President Couple, Rogelio and Leonora Panlasigui; Sr. Pilar Verzosa of Pro-Life Philippines; Msgr. Mariano Melecia and Fr. Renato Pareja of the Lucena Diocese; Fr. Joseph Schwegmann of the Cagayan de Oro Archdiocese; Sebastian and Betty Roxas-Chua of Rosary for Life; Margarita Magdoza, Sr. Pilar Go, Danilo and Jemia Operiano for the Diocese of Tagbilaran; Jocelyn Misanes and Maria Elma Lopez of the Davao Marian Movements; and Marilou Galza of the CBCP-ECFL Secretariat and Luz Dispo of the Diocese of Bataan.