Church agrees to priests as chaplains again

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Church agrees to priests as chaplains again
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spraret	Mar 14 2012, 01:56 PM Post #1
PDFF Admin Support Posts: 7,193 Group: PDFF Admin Group Member #3 Joined: July 9, 2004	Quote: DAVAO CITY—The Catholic Church has agreed anew to deploy priests as chaplains in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), 40 years after it stopped doing so. The declaration of martial law has soured the relationship between the Marcos dictatorship and the Catholic hierarchy that priests stopped performing as military chaplains. On Monday, two priests—Bonifacio Ampoyas and Pedro Maniwang—became the first members of the Catholic clergy to be named as chaplains in the AFP Reserve Force under the Eastern Mindanao Command based here. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/160943/church...chaplains-again



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