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Best of 2010: Peter Kennedy's first year in exile
- Peter Kirkwood
- 11 January 2011
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AUSTRALIA

A Muslim's view of Jesus the refugee
- Irfan Yusuf
- 22 December 2010
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Jesus was born into a family of internal refugees. His mother had to seek refuge, fleeing Herod's nasty dictatorship. It's uncertain whether she used the services of satanic people smugglers.
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RELIGION

A feminist's view of Mary MacKillop
- Moira Rayner
- 11 October 2010
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Men's control over Christian women's religious lives has grown vastly over the centuries. Perhaps MacKillop might have agreed with Virginia Woolf, 'The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.'
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Commission flats fable
- Virginia Millen
- 05 October 2010
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He had the emaciated cheeks of an addict. She was smaller, toothless and aged beyond her years. As we closed our gate he struck her. She fell on the bitumen, lit by the headlight of a passing car. 'You touch her and I'll belt you too,' the man yelled to my partner.
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Art prize tests religious convention
- Peter Kirkwood
- 03 September 2010
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Art prize tests religious convention
- Peter Kirkwood
- 03 September 2010
The annual Blake Prize for Religious Art has never been far from controversy. Works honoured this year include Sydney artist Rodney Pople’s Cardinal with Altar Boy, which is a provocative painting dealing with clergy sexual abuse. Its setting is the interior of a beautiful baroque church, and it portrays a headless prelate dressed in ecclesiastical finery, with an altar boy in his lap.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The angel's telling smile
- Michael Healey and Grant Fraser
- 31 August 2010
He is Gabriel, delicately boned, familiar, .. he has turned towards the Virgin .. who stands in her long solemnity, .. amongst the sober prophets, .. and the proper saints.
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RELIGION

Caravaggio's profane eye for the sacred
- Luke Walladge
- 22 July 2010
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If Caravaggio hadn't been such a drunken, violent, criminal, he may never have been human enough, disturbed enough or repentant of enough sin to produce the most arresting, influential and remarkable sacred art in the history of the Christian West.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Permutations of motherhood
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 June 2010
Adoption is shown to be a tumultuous process, as joyful and painful in its own way as pregnancy and birth. Lucy is unable to conceive, but suspects that the motherly bond is about much more than biology. Her husband Joseph, by contrast, values biology greatly.
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Peter Kennedy's first year in exile
- Peter Kirkwood
- 07 May 2010
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AUSTRALIA

Politicising women's bodies
- Catherine Marshall
- 06 May 2010
36 Comments
What's the difference between wanting a thin wife and wanting an invisible wife? Which is more democratic: the western tendency to idealise the porn-star aesthetic, or the old-fashioned imperative for modesty and virtue? When the chips are down, is raunch culture really more dignifying than discretion?
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Tony Abbott and the price of virginity
- Catherine Marshall
- 29 January 2010
50 Comments
Tony Abbott and I have something in common: we've both been having the sex talk with our teenage daughters. The bizarre glorification of virginity and the latent distaste of our daughters' sexuality removes the very power with which we strive to arm them.
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