To effectively evangelize Filipino culture, we have to know it in depth. Recent events have pointed to the growing need to truly understand Filipino culture. Crises have led post-EDSA Filipinos into a healthy soul searching. A foreign writer's analysis has described Filipino culture as damaged. Cardinal Sin has called it "immature.' Senator Leticia Ramos Shahani has submitted to the appropriate Senate Committee a well-researched paper on the strengths and weaknesses of Filipino culture.
Fillpino Cultural Values for the Apostolate comes as z major contribution to this honest and salutary examination of Filipino culture. Specifically, it provides instructive perspectives to our cultural traits.