Brawling Monks

Rival monk factions at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (the site of Jesus' death and resurrection) in Jerusalem brawled again. This week a few of the holy men were carted off to the big house after a fight that had something to do with a procession commemorating finding something that some people believe is the cross used to crucify Jesus and somehow this was connected to the question of who owns Jesus' tomb. We didn't really follow this one. The latest fight comes just weeks after international attention about the dangerous condition of the roof in the hotly contested Ethiopian chapel. It's more sad than ironic that centuries of hostility surround the stuff and the place where Jesus - the guy who spent a good bit of time talking about the danger of attachments to places and stuff - was crucified.