PHILIPPINES
GMA News
By Xianne Arcangel, GMA News
July 3, 2013
What can drive a revered man of cloth to turn away from his religious beliefs and become a reviled “cassocked hypocrite?”
Readers might just find the answer in the latest novel released by a Filipino author– who also happens to be a priest.
Gilbert Luis Centina III’s “Rubrics and Runes” tells the story of an idealistic priest, Jose Moran, whose convictions are tested when he discovers the double life being led by his “abominably corrupt religious superior.”
According to the book’s description on Amazon.com, the novel unmasks “cassocked hypocrites” who abuse their power by dipping their hands into their parishes’ pockets and engaging in other immoral activities.
Centina, who is described by literary critics as “a leading Christian voice in contemporary literature,” entered the Augtinian monastery in 1964. He was ordained as a priest by Jaime Cardinal Sin in 1975.
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