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Pedro Bantigue y Natividad, (January 31, 1920 – November 20, 2012) was a Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is notably the first bishop in the Philippines to come from Hagonoy, as well as the Province of Bulacan. Pedro N. Bantigue was born in Sta. Monica, Hagonoy, Bulacan by Marcos Bantigue and Eusebia Natividad and was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Manila on 31 May 1945. Shortly after his priestly ordination in 1945, he served as Private Secretary to three archbishops of Manila: Archbishop Michael J. O’Doherty, Archbishop Gabriel Reyes, and Cardinal-Archbishop Santos.  When one searches his name in the Internet you will discover one of his literary works on a thesis on Canon law he has taken in Catholic University of America on The Provincial  Council Of Manila 1771 (Its Text Followed by a Commentary on Actio II De Episcopis). He was ordained bishop on 25 July 1961 by His Eminence Rufino Jiao...

The First Diocesan Synod of San Pablo happened twenty years ago last May 24, 1994.  I am an eight month old priest of the Diocese. I am one of the staff drafted by the Synodal Fathers particularly for documentation purposes. As a young priest a vast information of doctrinal and collated experiences from the survey have an enormous impact on the course of the Synod. From the painstaking effort and long nights without sleep from the delegates and for those involved to level the ground for the seed to be planted and be nourished. Personally, I thanked the Bishop Buenaventura Famadico for bringing this issue that have stayed in slumber over the years. Bishop Famadico sees that this fruit of labor though been delegated to a small number of representatives is an effort as a whole of the Diocese to assess and give practical suggestions and directives to the flow of pastoral thrust that this Diocese of San Pablo must pursue as we interpret it in the present situation hoping to find ...

Source: Rome Reports (October 29, 2012.  -  On the last day of the three week Synod on the New Evangelization, the Pope received a document with 58 proposals.  The document is not yet official, but it includes a series of ideas that can help the Church and its laity in its mission of evangelizing to the modern world. The Pope will review the list before drafting the final version.) FINAL LIST OF PROPOSALS  Introduction Proposition 1 : THE DOCUMENTATION SUBMITTED TO THE HOLY FATHER In addition to the entire documentation on The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith related to this synod, submitted to the Holy Father for his consideration, namely, the Lineamenta, the Instrumentum laboris, the Relatio ante disceptationem, the Relatio post disceptationem, the presentations, both given in the synod hall and those in scriptis, the Message to the People of God, the Reports of the Small Groups and their discussions, the synod fa...