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GE - Life and Works of Rizal: Republic Act No. 1425 or Rizal Law

The Rizal Law was passed in 1956 to mandate the teaching of Jose Rizal's life, works, and writings in all public and private schools and universities. There was opposition from the Catholic Church, who felt Rizal's novels were blasphemous and could misrepresent the church. A compromise was reached to teach expurgated versions of the novels and only in colleges and universities. The document also discusses how Rizal sought Philippine independence through non-violent means using his pen, and was executed for his writings which stirred anti-Spanish sentiment. Rizal is praised as an extraordinary individual who exemplified what a Filipino could achieve.

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GE - Life and Works of Rizal: Republic Act No. 1425 or Rizal Law

The Rizal Law was passed in 1956 to mandate the teaching of Jose Rizal's life, works, and writings in all public and private schools and universities. There was opposition from the Catholic Church, who felt Rizal's novels were blasphemous and could misrepresent the church. A compromise was reached to teach expurgated versions of the novels and only in colleges and universities. The document also discusses how Rizal sought Philippine independence through non-violent means using his pen, and was executed for his writings which stirred anti-Spanish sentiment. Rizal is praised as an extraordinary individual who exemplified what a Filipino could achieve.

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GE - Life and Works of Rizal

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1425 or RIZAL LAW


June 12, 1956 (Independence Day) ● Supporters:
→ Manila Mayor Arsenio Lacson - walked out during
Official title: the mass while Santos’ letter was being read
AN ACT TO INCLUDE IN THE CURRICULA OF ALL ● Compromise between Catholic Church and
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND the legislators:
UNIVERSITIES COURSES ON THE LIFE, WORKS AND ○ watering down the morally offensive
WRITINGS OF JOSE RIZAL, PARTICULARLY HIS parts of Rizal’s novels before they
NOVELS NOLI ME TANGERE AND EL were taught to schools – expurgated
FILIBUSTERISMO, AUTHORIZING THE PRINTING AND versions
DISTRIBUTION THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER ○ only colleges and universities would
PURPOSES. teach these materials

● Senator Claro M. Recto - statesman that JOSE RIZAL: THE BEST THE FILIPINO COULD BE
proposed that all schools in the Philippines Conrado de Quiros
teach students about the life and works of
Jose Rizal Jose Rizal: an extraordinary indio
● Catholic Churches were against Recto’s bill: ● Jose Rizal is just as much of a valiant hero as
→ Manila Archbishop Rufino Santos - wrote a Andres Bonifacio despite not fighting battles
pastoral letter protesting the bill the traditional way (Rizal might have been more
→ Catholic Action of the Philippines admirable)
→ Knights of Columbus ● Rizal was exceptional at everything he did
→ the Congregation of the Mission (made Spaniards fear him)
→ Catholic Teachers Guild ● Rizal wanted oppression to stop, to free
→ Fr. Jesus Cavanna - allegedly argued the novels Filipinos, without bloodshed
would misrepresent current conditions in the church ● Pen is mightier than the sword
(wrote Rizal's Unfading Glory: A Documentary History of the ● Rizal was executed in Luneta because
Conversion of Dr. José Rizal) – about Rizal’s conversion to Spaniards received the hate of the Filipinos
Catholicism due to his writings
○ Thought of Rizal’s works as
blasphemous
○ Santos argued that compulsory
reading of the original versions would
negatively affect the students
○ Went as far as to call supporters
communists and anti-Catholic
○ Church feared that the bill would
violate freedom of conscience and
religion
○ Symposiums (meetings) were
organized by Catholic groups to
oppose the bill
○ Catholic schools threatened to close
down (Sen. Recto responded:
government will take over administration
and nationalize them)

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