Are you CATHOLIC? your post make sense to a certain degree, but why are you so desperate to dismiss its permanent and virtual strangle hold to countries like the Philippines is silly, and ignorant of the actual reality. The effects of Roman Catholicism is very deep and pervasive in the Philippines where it still influences the political discourse, the political class, the politicians and the people to this day.
I'm agnostic. And I'm just demystifying this complex that Filipinos and other frustrated descendants of the Spanish colonial past blame the dead for their countries' current problems.
Spanish rule has passed, today the US dominates. Those who are there should question the current leaders and change if they are not happy. But if they only have the courage to attack the dead and are afraid to question the living, then countries like the Philippines will not fix their current problems. In this regard, Filipinos are the same as Indians, who were colonized by the English and are not much different.
And note, even today, there is a greater per capita presence of the Catholic Church in France than in the Philippines.
France is a secular country and has 65 million inhabitants, but has 20,000 priests and 18,000 parishes.
The Philippines has over 100 million inhabitants and only 7 thousand priests and less than 3 thousand parishes.
In terms of presence and cultural impact, the Catholic Church clergy is still stronger in one of the most secular countries in Europe than in the so-called most religious country in Asia.
Statistical source is the official numbers:
The Catholic Church is a white religion that is more present in white countries in Europe and the United States than in Latin America and Asia where the majority of the population is non-white and practices religious syncretism.
I don't understand why you give so much importance to a church that was powerful in the past but is no longer so.