Monthly Archives: September 2015

Beauty, Fashion, International

BINIBINING PILIPINAS CHARITIES CAN’T DECIDE ON MISS PHILIPINES PIA WURTZBACH’S NATIONAL COSTUME FOR MISS UNIVERSE

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Front and back; left to right: gold, blue, beige

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles®) – Previously, we reported that the Binibining Pilipinas Charities, Inc. (BPCI) — the local franchise for the Miss Universe Pageant — has chosen the national costume that reigning Miss Philippines Pia Wurtzbach will wear at the upcoming international pageant.

Well, it turns out, that wasn’t the final decision.

The Adobo Chronicles® just learned that BPCI has chosen three designs and it can’t decide which one would give Wurtzbach the best crack at the Best in National Costume award, and hopefully the title of Miss Universe.

Mak Tumang
Mak Tumang

The three designs — all by Mak Tumang, a  young designer from Mexico, Pampanga — are based on the traditional Filipino terno, considered the national dress for women featuring the familiar butterfly sleeves.

So, BPCI has sought the help of The Adobo Chronicles® and its followers to decide on the final gown for Ms. Wurtzbach.

Help BPCI by voting in the poll below.  Should it be the gold, blue or beige gown?

Law Enforcement, LGBT, Religion, Same-sex Marriage

KIM DAVIS’ SON NATHAN WILL SOON BE REUNITED WITH HIS MOTHER IN JAIL

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Nathan Davis, right
Nathan Davis, right

ROWAN COUNTY, Kentucky (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Much of the media focus has been on Kim Davis, the Rowan County clerk who is now in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in violation of a high court order.

But in the same county clerk office, there is another Davis, Nathan, a deputy clerk who has also been refusing marriage license applications to same-sex couples.

You guessed it right, Nathan is Kim’s son and subordinate.

Nathan continues to uphold his mom’s decision to refuse to issue licenses to gay men and women under “God’s authority.” So he will soon be reunited with Kim. In county jail.

Now that this mother-son conspiracy is out, the older Davis is facing a new, additional charge: nepotism.

How did anyone miss that? Including CNN.

Religion

PHILIPPINE BISHOPS TO SECEDE FROM THE VATICAN

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Philippine bishops with former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (file photo)
Philippine bishops with former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (file photo)

MANILA, Philippines  (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) announced today that it was seceding from The Vatican over recent pronouncements by Pope Francis.

The final straw for the Filipino bishops was the pope’s instruction allowing priests to absolve Catholics of the sin of abortion.

In a statement, CBCP president and Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said the Church still considers abortion a mortal sin and that aborting a baby merits excommunication. Villegas said, “Choosing to terminate innocent, unborn life is not among a woman’s options, because her right to privacy and to make decisions about herself do not extend to the life in her womb, over which she enjoys no dominion at all.”

Other papal pronouncements that led to the decision of CBCP to cut ties with The Vatican include welcoming homosexuals  and divorced (and remarried) Catholics into the fold of the church.

The Philippines, home to 100 Million people, about three quarters of whom are Catholics, is the only remaining country where divorce is still illegal. Homosexuality, while largely tolerated,  is still frowned upon by many.

CBCP will soon convene a local Synod of Bishops to elect a titular head that will be fully independent of The Vatican. It will be held at the Philippine Arena, owned by the second largest religious group in the country, Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC).

Filipino Catholics are looking forward to the white smoke that will billow out of the arena to signal the election of a Filipino pontiff.

The Adobo Chronicles® will be bringing you live coverage of the Manila Synod.