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POPE FRANCIS’ IMPRIMATUR ON ‘DA JESUS BOOK’

imageVatican City, Rome – For his simplicity and humility, for his compassion for the sick and the handicapped, for reaching out to atheists and to gay men and women, Pope Francis continues to amaze Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Never has the Vatican seen such a radical departure from the centuries-old precepts of the  Roman Curia.

In an exclusive audience with The Adobo Chronicles, the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church revealed that since his election to the papacy, he has been reading one version of the New Testament, and one version only: Da Jesus Book.

Da Jesus Book is a Hawaiian version of the New Testament and is written in Hawaiian Pidgin. While many versions of the New Testament exist – the most popular version of which is the King James version – not all come with the Vatican’s imprimatur. Neither does Da Jesus Book version. But the fact that it is the version that’s on the night stand in Pope Francis’ bedroom at his apartment shows the Pontiff’s liking for the book.  The Pope is known for his passion for languages and Da Jesus Book might be his way of mastering Hawaiian pidgin.

Asked what his favorite New Testament quote is, Pope Francis said: “Mark :3, 1-6.” It is the story of Jesus entering the synagogue on Sabbath Day and healing a man with a withered hand.

Here are the Hawaiian pidgin and standard English versions: image

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Politics, Religion

GROUPS REVOLT AGAINST HALLOWEEN COSTUMES

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Images by Pottery Barn

San Francisco, California –  The San Francisco-based, upscale retail store Pottery Barn has apologized for selling a Halloween costume of a sushi chef and a kimono that an Asian American Civil Rights group had complained were culturally offensive.  The retailer confirmed that it had removed the items from its website, saying it did not mean to offend anyone with the Halloween attire.

Asian American civil rights activists spoke out after the store began selling the products, a kimono and a sushi chef outfit featuring the Rising Sun of the Japanese flag. The activists demanded the immediate removal of the clothing and requested an apology, saying that the problem is not with the attire itself; it is with the fact that Pottery Barn is marketing these outfits as costumes.

Following the announcement by Pottery Barn, other groups also began demanding that retailers like Walmart, Walgreens, Target, K-Mart, Amazon.com and HalloweenCostumes.com remove clothing items from their Halloween inventory:

Texas Governor Rick Perry and governors of other Southwest states asked the retail outlets to remove cowboy hats from their shelves; the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops demanded that businesses stop selling nuns’ and priests’ habits; and a group representing the Irish community in New York City asked that the sale of kilts be banned during Halloween season.  A South Asian activist group in Berkeley went a step further by petitioning the city to shut down stores selling the Indian sari during the entire Halloween week. In San Francisco, Mayor Ed Lee appealed to drag queens to wear only race-neutral dresses on Halloween night.

The protesting groups joined in the chorus by saying that their traditional attires are not costumes; rather, they represent cultures and religions.  To market the clothing items as Halloween costumes is offensive and can trigger racial or religious violence, they claimed.

Meanwhile The Adobo Chronicles learned from reliable sources that there is a growing movement in many U.S. liberal states that aims to abolish the Halloween holiday altogether. “This way, no one will ever be offended again by costumes that mock countries, peoples and religions,” the movement’s spokesperson said.

International, Religion, Science and Environment

NASA WARNS OF FLIP IN THE SUN’S MAGNETIC FIELD

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splash3Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) disclosed on its website that “something big is about to happen on the sun,” adding that “according to measurements from NASA-supported observatories, the sun’s vast magnetic field is about to flip.”

Minutes after the announcement was posted, NASA’s phone lines became jammed and several of its servers crashed as people around the world sought answers on how this phenomenon, which happens every 11 years, would impact planet earth.  The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) immediately convened its council members to discuss the NASA announcement, summoning NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Jr. to New York City.

Bolden said that NASA is still assessing the potential impact of the change in polarity of the sun’s magnetic field.  However, he confirmed that the following will definitely occur as a result of this flip:

  • The Continental United States and all of Canada will lose their winter, spring and fall seasons.  Only the summer season will remain for the first half of each year.  The second half will see a hurricane season.
  • Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, Tonga, the Marianas, the Philippines and all other islands in the Pacific will lose their tropical weather and will experience winter for eight months of each year, with the remaining four months bringing fall-like weather
  • California’s tectonic fault lines will even up, practically eliminating any chance of earthquakes
  • Most of Western Europe – but only those countries who are part of the Schengen agreement – will not experience any change in weather or environment
  • Environmental changes in the rest of Europe remains unknown at this point
  • A few countries in the Middle East will see all their desert sand evaporate
  • The rest of the world will see shorter daylights, which will have a heavy toll on their electric consumption

Queried by the UNEP council members if there is anything that countries and governments can do to avert the impending solar flip, Bolden said, “Well, for a start, we  can all implore Pope Francis to lead a universal prayer for a miracle.  He expressed confidence that the Pope can intercede not only on behalf of Catholics but Atheists and all others who belong to different religions.