(UPDATED) Dominican priest arrested for ‘offending religious feelings’
A DOMINICAN priest and instructor of the UST Faculty of Sacred Theology was arrested by the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) for allegedly mocking the supposed apparition of the Virgin Mary in Lipa City.
Fr. Winston Cabading, also an exorcist of the Archdiocese of Manila, was arrested by police detectives last May 13 for allegedly violating Article 133 of the Revised Penal Code or the provision on offending religious feelings, the CIDG said in a Facebook post. The penalty for the offense is jail term that lasts from six months and a day to two years and four months.
According to the CIDG, the arrest took place at about 10:10 p.m. at the St. Mary Magdalene House in Nasugbu, Batangas. Cabading was arrested by virtue of a warrant is...