Priesthood
For fifteen years, Panlilio was the director of the Social Action Center of Pampanga (SACOP), which worked with communities displaced by lahar following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. He has also spearheaded a successful micro-lending program. He also established the Talete Panyulung ning Kapampangan Inc. (TPKI), based on the Grameen Bank-approach. Now on its 20th year, TPKI released P2 billion in loans to small entrepreneurs in Central Luzon.
After finishing elementary at the Minalin Central Elementary School, Panlilio opted to enroll at the Don Bosco Academy as a sophomore after spending a year as a freshman at the Don Honorio Ventura College of Arts and Trades (DHVCAT).
Panlilio was in and out of several seminaries as he went through a long discernment process, and was finally ordained priest on December 13, 1981 (after finishing his Theology Studies at the St. Augustine Major Seminary).
Panlilio, along with two other priests, was suspended from his pastoral duties for running for elected office in 2007. Bishop Leonardo Medroso, chairman of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines Episcopal Commission on Canon Law cited a conflict between a role in political parties and in the church.
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