Diocesan clergy reshuffled
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he Diocese of Dumaguete has announced Tuesday the reshuffling of assigments of its priests in major positions from the administrative positions to all the institutional and parochial assignments of the province, with a constituency of close to a million Negrenses in the Oriental side. This is one of the few times that such tial sector in determining the political choices of major reshuffle is effected, primarily be- laity leaders. There may be an absence of a “cathocause of the assumption of its new leader- lic vote” but nonetheless, its parish clergy and a ship in the person of Msgr Julito Cortes, very strong pastoral council composed of the lahimself a native of Siquijor and product of ity or civilians, are very influential in persuading the St Joseph Seminary in Sibulan. the socio economic and political direction of the Although claiming to be strictly non- general constituency because of their sheer political, the predominantly Catholic popuTo page 2 lation in Negros Oriental is a very influen-
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Diocese to scrap arancel system; replace w/S.L.A.s T
he Diocese of Dumaguete by mandate of its newly installed bishop Monsignor Julito B. Cortes has announced that starting May this year, the centuries old “Arancel System” of the Catholic Church will be abolished at least here in the Diocese of Dumaguete.
It will be replaced with a more practical and equitable centralized operation called the basic remuneration plus the”
“Standard Living Allowance” or SLA system for all priests alike. This implementation follows the initiative of the
president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines and former Lingayan Archbishop SocaratesVillegas who im-
plemented the abolition of their arancel system in 2013 and replaced it with the concept of the “spirituTo page 5
Many dioceses have abolished arancels
What has Easter got to do with Christ’s Resurrection?
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he question is often asked: Easter is a pagan goddess of spring and fertility: So why call the Resurrection Sunday of Christ as “easter Sunday?” The Pagan goddess of In the web www.home2b.nl written by spring and renewal is one Susan, she made a re- called Oestar, from the search on the following Scandinavian “Ostra”and story. Email us if you agree the Teutonic “Ostern”or or not on the issue of “What “Eastre” ( Easter) who has Easter got to do with were both Goddesses Resurrection?” symbolizing spring and The highlights of the To page 2 article:
LPs still wooing Degamo to party BY DEMS DEMECILLO
ome Liberal Party members, who are mostly disillusioned with the provincial party leadership, are eyeing for the entry of incumbent Governor Roel Degamo into the administration party despite the strong possibility of an LPNPC local alliance for the 2016 presidential elections. However, Degamo’s power may not be easy, as entry to the Liberal party in To page 14
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Fiscal earns high marks from clients
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lients of the City Prosecutor’s Office were generally “satisfied” with the frontline services of the agency based on the four-day survey conducted by the Civil Service Commission pursuant to the Anti-Red Tape Act (ARTA) of 2007. The City Prosecutor’s core function of instituting Office under Fiscal Eliazer criminal proceedings on Escorial the Department of behalf of the state; it also ABOLITION OF ARANCEL SYSTEM is now adopted by various dioceses of the country. This CHRONI- Justice is the core prosecutTo page 15 CLE file photo of 35 diocesan bishops was taken during the Jan. 5, 2014 installation of Bishop Msgr ing division performing the Julito Cortes, which was attended by Cardinal Jose Luis Antonio Tagle and Cardinal Ricardo Vidal.
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