"The joys and hopes, the fears and anxieties of the people of this age, especially the poor, are those of the Church." This quote is taken from the Second Vatican Council's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes believes in. As one historian has said, the conquest of the Americas came with a Bible in one hand and a sword in the other, and that's a long and tangled history. Fast forward to the 20th century, and poor people were beginning to long for a change that would alter the traditional relationship in which the church was more associated with those in power. The question now is how can the Church be a Church for the poor and at the same time, more theological in nature? Nowadays, the Church is identified exclusively with the hierarchy and that ignores the laity, a Church that is exclusively liturgical and sacramental, a Church that is not concerned about the situation of poverty, injustice, violence and the destruction of the environment, and a Church that is associated with the rich and powerful, where the poor are marginalized. The Church should not be like this. It should be a movement for those who were denied their rights and plunged into such poverty that they were deprived of their full status as human beings. The poor should take the example of Jesus and use it to bring about a just society. To renew the Church, Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) were formed. The Second Plenary Council of the Philippines (PCP II) in 1991 regarded the BECs as  means of renewing the Church and Philippine society. Since then BECs have continued to grow and expand and they can now be found in over sixty dioceses. PCP II's vision of the renewed Church says, "Our vision of the Church as communion, participation and mission, about the Church as priestly, prophetic, & kingly people, and as a Church of the Poor- a church that is renewed - is today finding expression in one ecclesial movement. This is the movement t