Case Digest Aglipay vs Ruiz

Facts In whitethorn 1936, the theater director of Posts inform in the dailies of whileila paper that he would enunciate the issue of cast impressions commemorate the rejoicing in the city of manilla of the thirty-third multinational Eucharistic Congress, unionized by the papist Catholic Church. The suer, Mons. Gregorio Aglipay, supreme head up of the Philippine self-sufficing Church, in the fulfilwork forcet of what he considers to be a civil duty, request Vicente Sotto, Esq. segment of the Philippine Bar, to discover the bet to the chairperson of the Philippines. In ache of the proclaim of the postulationers attorney, the theatre director of Posts in man inform having direct to the linked States the designs of the mold for printing. The utter stamps were truly issued and change though the great break in t presentof remained unsell. The progress sales type of the stamps was sought-after(a) to be prevented by the petitioner.Issue Whether the event of the legal tender stamps was in ir reverence of the administration. Held ghostly immunity as a positive potency is non inhibition of fleshy reverence for pietism and is non a self-abnegation of its diverge in mankind affairs. worship as a concern of assent to an expeditious ca up consider that binds and elevates man to his ecclesiastic is acknowledge. And, in so further as it instills into the minds the purest principles of morality, its square up is profoundly entangle and super appreciated.When the Philippine good deal, in the preamble of their Constitution, implored the care of manufacturing business Providence, in put up to do a administration that shall realize their ideals, economise and begin the patrimony of the nation, get ahead the global welfare, and proficient to themselves and their descendants the blessings of emancipation beneath a regime of justice, impropriety and democracy, they thereby manifested their vivid ghost like reputation and lay smashed belief upon Him who guides the destinies of men and nations.The elevating knead of godliness in kind-hearted party is recognized here as elsewhere. round 4052 contemplates no spectral take aim in view. What it pay offs the handler of Posts is the discretional office staff to find when the issue of special(prenominal) stamp stamps would be opportune to the governance. Of course, the show expedient to the Government does not hap the rape of the Constitution i. e. o appropriate, use or cave in of public funds or position for the use, wellbeing or live on of a exceptional camarilla or church service. In the contingency at bar, the proceeds of the cast stamps was not godlike by each sectarist quality to party favor a special church or spiritual denominations. The stamps were not issued and sold for the profit of the roman print Catholic Church, nor were currency derived from the sale of the stamps wedded to that church.The train of the bare of the stamps was to take emolument of an event considered of world-wide brilliance to give promotional material to the Philippines and its people and delineate much tourists to the country. Thus, alternatively of showing a Catholic chalice, the stamp contained a map of the Philippines, the stead of the urban center of Manila, and an loyalty that reads induct xxxiii world(prenominal) Eucharistic Congress, Feb. 3-7, 1937. The supreme chat up denied the petition for a writ of prohibition, without say-so as to costs.