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 ==[[Parañaque City News]]==
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-'''59 senior citizens receive pensions'''
+'''Church warns vs fake priest operating in Parañaque'''
-*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/347851/59-senior-citizens-receive-pensions
+*Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/244449/news/church-warns-vs-fake-priest-operating-in-para-e
-*By: MITCH ARCEO
+*By: VVP, GMA News
-*''January 12, 2012''
+*''January 13, 2012''
-Fifty nine senior citizens in Paranaque City received their pension from the Department of Social Welfare and Development-National Capital Region this month.
+Catholic Church officials warned the public against a man claiming to be a priest and was said to be operating in the Parañaque diocese.
-Forty five citizens out of 104 qualified beneficiaries are expected to appear at the Paranaque City Hall to avail of the pension. The senior citizens received P500 monthly pension as per DSWD pension program under Republic Act 9994 or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010.
+Parañaque diocese vice chancellor Msgr. Benedicto Aquino said the fraudulent priest introduces himself as “Fr. Noel Ormenita” and had celebrated Mass in a condominium in the city.
-Extended on a quarterly basis, the earlier payouts were made in March and October 2011.
+“Noel Ormenita is not a Roman Catholic priest and has no faculties to exercise the priestly ministry in the Diocese of Parañaque and everywhere else for that matter,” Aquino said in an article posted on the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) news site.
-To avail of the pension, the 104 beneficiaries were required to register at the Paranaque Office of the Senior Citizens Affairs. In order to qualify, the elderly must not be a recipient of other pension benefits such as GSIS, SSS, AFPMBAI, among others. In addition, senior citizens who qualify to the program are not supported by their families.
+Aquino also relayed another warning from the Diocese of Cabanatuan about the suspension order it imposed on Fr. Eliezer Navarro.
-The beneficiaries expressed their gratitude to the DSWD-NCR and Parañaque City Social Welfare and Development Office for arranging the conduct of the payout in the city, making it more convenient and economical for them in terms of travel time and transportation fares.
+Navarro was earlier assigned as “priest-on-loan” to the Diocese of Cubao but was suspended “indefinitely” by Cabanatuan Bishop Sofronio Bancud.
-“We laud the national government for caring for the country’s elderly. We, in Parañaque do the same, regarding them with high esteem; recognizing their invaluable contributions to community development and nation-building; and repaying the debt of gratitude by giving them special privileges, among them local legislations requiring private enterprises and public institutions in the city to set up express lanes and amenities for senior citizens, persons with disabilities and pregnant women; donations of wheel chairs for the elderly, like PWDs; free blood chemistry and H1N1/seasonal flu immunization under a special program. We will continue to introduce more measures to help our senior citizens," said Paranaque City Mayor Florencio Bernabe Jr.
+Because of his suspension, Navarro has no faculties to exercise his priestly ministry in any diocese.
+“Fr. Navarro and Mr. Ormenita are prohibited from celebrating Mass and/or performing priestly functions in any school, chapel, funeral home, or private houses within the Diocese of Parañaque,” said Aquino.
+He said those who doubt the status of priests from other dioceses should demand a celebret.
+A “celebret” is a testimonial given to a priest that he is in good standing, with an accompanying request that he be permitted to say Mass.
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