much ado about judas

the gospel, that is. national geographic primed an interested public on the 'revelations' of the recently studied and translated gospel of judas by debuting its story at the start of the christian holy week. expectedly, it drew reactions that range from incredulity to hostility, following, of course, the near-exact formula: the strength of negative reaction is directly proportional to the degree

domingo de ramos & the politics of personality

today is palm sunday, the whole catholic church celebrates the start of the holy week: blessing of palm fronds, mark's passion narrative as gospel, red vestments. also very heavy traffic on nlex and slex as regular city folks start their twice, or so,-a-year pilgrimages to their home provinces.this early morning's blessing of the palms, recalling Jesus' 'triumphal' (over what?) entry to jerusalem

an auspicious beginning

an arsonist is haunting legazpi city these days.last week he razed the b.u. little theater to the ground.before that, a portion of aquinas hospital,as well as some other hospitals.two attempts were made at st. raphael's church,both of them frustrated by timely discoveryof small starting fires - fire on a pew; burning jacketdraped on the church's sound system controls.yesterday i saw a portion of