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Government, Politics, Religion

Philippines: Trillanes Wants Fellow Senators Cayetano And Pacquiao Impeached

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Article ll, Section 6 of the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines declares: The separation of Church and State shall be inviolable. Senator Antonio Trilanes wants to invoke this constitutional provision to have his colleagues Alan Cayetano and Manny Pacquiao impeached.

(Actually, senators cannot be impeached but can be removed by a two-thirds vote of all the members of the Senate.)

Trillanes called for the impeachment after photos went viral showing Cayetano, Pacquiao and others holding a bible study inside the Senate building.

“Don’t they know the law? They violated the constitution,” Trillanes said.

In response, Pacquiao said, “I know the law. It says ‘No law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

“So Trillanes doesn’t have any business interfering with the free exercise of my religion!”

Good point, Senator Pacquiao.

Well, sort of. If you take your bible study outside the Senate building, you’ll be just fine.

By the way, who paid for the buffet during your bible study? Just curious.

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Religion, Social Media

Pope Francis Meets Mark Zuckerberg, Declines To Open A Facebook Account

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image.jpegTHE VATICAN  (The Adobo Chronicles, Berlin Bureau) – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan met with Pope Francis at The Vatican today.

It was described as a very cordial meeting.

Zuckerberg gave the Pontiff a drone as a gift and invited the head of the Roman Catholic Church to open a Facebook account.

Pope Francis politely declined, saying that he is happy with his Twitter and Instagram accounts at the moment.

The Pople has about 9 million followers on Twitter and 1.4 million on Instagram.

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Religion

Catholic Priests Will Be Gonged For Homilies Over 8 Minutes

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THE VATICAN, Italy (The Adobo Chronicles, Berlin Bureau) – In Hollywood, Oscar winners are drowned out by music  when they exceed the alloted time for their acceptance speeches.  In Catholic churches around the world, priests face the gong for homilies  over 8  minutes long.

Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, the secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, says homilies should be brief to cater for people with short attention spans. Clergy should also work from an outline, rather than a script, to allow for better eye contact.

In a book called The Word of God, Eterovic proffers suggestions on how priests and deacons can improve the quality of sermons and retain churchgoers’ interest.

“The homily in general should not go over eight minutes – the average amount of time for a listener to concentrate,” he said, adding that clergy should keep abreast of current affairs so that a sermon addresses issues of local or national concern.

In Manila,  the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issued a pastoral memorandum addressed to all altar servers in the country to use the church gong to cut off clergy who go beyond the 8-minute limit for homilies.

Welcome to the “Gong Show!”

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