LETTER FAXED ON JUNE 4, 2009

Romulo Mabanta Buenaventura Sayoc & De Los Angeles

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DEAR MANUEL L. QUEZON III:

We write to you on behalf of our client, Fr. Romeo J. Intengan, SJ,

who you have denounced time and again in your column in the
Inquirer through innuendo and unfair inference. Most recently,
however, you have moved outright disparagement.

In the 18 May 2009 print issue of the Inquirer, you wrote an article
titled “Moral intensification,” wherein you write of Father Intengan—
Consider the dilemma of the Jesuits whose past election of Romeo
Intengan as their leader has enabled him to use the residual prestige
of his having been a past Jesuit Provincial to provide the moral and
political underpinnings for the liquidation of the Legal Left. That
prestige has accorded him a prominence he has deftly used,
politically, and conferred impunity because he is immune from
scrutiny.

Two sides of the same coin: an Archbishop of Manila who can

privately tell the President to resign but shrinks from publicly making
the call; a former Jesuit Provincial who helps plot the assassination of
suspected communists; both wield a power neither deserve or should
even be able to wield.

This article was also published on your website (Manuel L. Quezon

III: The Daily Dose) and on the website of the Inquirer on even date.

You accuse Father Intengan of complicity in criminal and immoral

activities and saying something which is against the teachings of the
Catholic Church. This is utterly false. He has been condemning
extrajudicial killings. Your very public and malicious accusations not
only besmirch Father Intengan’s reputation, they have caused, and
continue to cause, him mental anguish and serious anxiety.

Accordingly, we demand that you issue a formal statement in your

column recanting your libelous statements against Father Intengan.
In addition, we ask that you remove the offending articles from your
blog and, to the extent you are able, from the other sites that have
chosen to publish the same. Moreover, we ask that you issue a
formal apology to Father Intengan for the unfair, erroneous, and
wholly-undeserved allegations you have made against him.

We hope this receives your immediate attention and that we receive a

favorable response from you on or before close of business on 11
June 2009. Should we not hear from you within that time, our client
would be compelled to pursue his other legal and equitable remedies
against you immediately and without further notice.

—ROMULO MABANTA BUENAVENTURA

SAYOC & DE LOS ANGELES

Signed By:

JACINTO D. JIMENEZ

MANUEL M. COSICO

ELEANOR K.G. RABUY

Copy furnished:

LETTY JIMENEZ-MAGSANOC