Why did Rizal made a retraction?

Question

I'm really confused why there are some issues which sprout about retraction of Rizal. Do you have ideas why? Please help me, this is our topic in our Rizal subject.

Answer 1

The church has friends in high places............. and also very low ones.

With most ( all ) members of the Mafiosi and also the jesuit priesthood called to the Catholic faith it would not have been hard for the Vatican to muscle, "persuade" lean on, intimidate or otherwise manipulate a change of conscience or opinion in a single individual.

the Vatican has lied , intimidated, perverted the course of justice, denied human rights, tortured , murdered, pillaged, destroyed , plundered, desecrated, falsely imprisoned and harassed to death those they believed to be the enemies of the Vatican throughout the centuries..They likewise have installed puppet rulers, manipulated rulers, created conflicts , instilled murderous rampages against non catholics,connived and caused revolution in areas where they wanted power.

Do you really think some little opinionated author is going to be a big headache for them?

The RC church is an institution built on blood and, murder, politics and  human rights abuses ..nothing more and nothing less.

Eastern and Western History supports and documents that beyond a doubt.

Answer 2

try to watch Bayaning Third World

http://www.geocities.com/philmovies/film...

There's always two sides to this story but I believe nothing is proven

Answer 3

1896 Jose Rizal was said to have issued a letter of retraction regarding his novels and other published articles against the Roman Catholic Church.

There are at least 4 texts of Rizal's retraction. All of them differ.

That his burial was not on holy ground led to issues raised on the veracity of accounts of his 'retraction,' which the Church ever since has been vigorously defending. Many continue to believe that Rizal neither married his sweetheart Josephine Bracken in Roman Catholic rites hours before his execution nor ever retracted those parts of his writings that were anti-Roman Catholic.

Those who deny the retraction point out to a revealing clue tucked in 'Adiós', I go where there are no slaves, no hangmen or oppressors, where faith does not kill... Whether this stanza was his final comment on the Catholic Church is a subject of dispute. In most of his writings Rizal maintained that the men of the cloth were the real rulers and the real government. Much of the Church's case rests on claims of a signed retraction, a copy of which could not be produced and shown to the Rizal family despite their repeated requests.