taken during the Visita Iglesia de Vespa ‘07 (photo courtesy of Minggoy)
As reported in the news, the Vatican issued a 36-page document called “Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road” (or the “Ten Commandments for Motorists”) last Tuesday.
The “unusual” document warned about the effects of road rage since, it says, driving brings out “primitive” behavior in motorists, including “impoliteness, rude gestures, cursing, blasphemy, loss of sense of responsibility or deliberate infringement of the highway code.”
But the document didn’t just focus on four-wheel drivers. It particularly cited other traffic problems such as “the reckless use of motorbikes and motorcycles.” *ouch!*
A Catholic nation like the Philippines could use these ‘guidelines’ to make driving on our roads feel more like a ‘walk in the park’ than an every-man-for-himself battleground. There’s nothing in the new commandments that a motorist doesn’t know yet, but it sure helps to be reminded of these simple rules and the ‘holy’ association doesn’t hurt either.
Moses weren’t there during the release and the documents was not carved in stones either, but it did come from the church hierarchy and that is ‘good’ enough (pun intended).
>> Read here THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR MOTORISTS
