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By Raïssa Robles This is not the first time the Catholic Church has pressured the government into banning a work of art on the grounds that it is sacrilegious and blasphemous. In 1956, the Catholic Church tried to stop Congress from requiring all schools from including the novels of our national hero Dr. Jose Rizal in the curriculum. To [...]
By Raïssa Robles I realized only recently that Rizal was not just a subject in school but remains politically relevant today. For instance, the poem he secretly stuffed inside a small lamp condoled with victims of political killings and torture. I am proud to say that my great grand-uncle was Maximo Viola, the man who financed Rizal’s first novel Noli [...]
And what this has to do with Rizal and Marcos By Raissa Robles I’ve been writing since I was a kid. Writing all sorts of stuff. I’ve written about Sharon and Gabby, earthquakes and volcanoes, pearls and fashion, and even an adventure tale. But increasingly, I do not know why I feel compelled to write about a puke-inducing period in [...]
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