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RELIGION

Dorothy Day's gospel with teeth
- Andrew Hamilton
- 30 November 2010
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It is 30 years this week since Catholic radical Dorothy Day died. She was a quirky woman who lived on the margins of Church and United States society. Her life was lived in harsh conditions, but the way she put its elements together was sweet and attractive.
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INTERNATIONAL

Thirty years of Jesuit Refugee Service
- Mark Raper
- 17 November 2010
3 Comments
May I tell you about one refugee whom I met during the 20 years I lived and worked JRS? The story has no happy outcome, indeed far from it. But it may help to communicate some of the feelings that inspire many who accompany the refugees.
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RELIGION

Rethinking indigeneity in the age of globalisation
- Frank Brennan
- 01 November 2010
3 Comments
There is an emerging Aboriginal middle class. The contested questions in those communities relate to the expensive delivery of services including health, housing and education. The contested issue in the urban community is over self-identification as Aboriginal by persons of mixed descent.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Staking out our vampire fetish
- Brian Matthews
- 11 August 2010
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For all our modern sophistication, refinement and technology, we remain in imaginative thrall to one of the most venerable and terrifying of folk figures. The vampire combines two of human kind's profoundly obsessive preoccupations: mortality and sex.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Elegy for a priestly life
- Andrew Hamilton
- 23 July 2010
8 Comments
In contrast to Luther, John Molony never discovered the grace that would free him from the guilt and anxiety caused by his not meeting expectations. Nor did he reject the pattern of church relationships and theological assumptions that endorsed these expectations. He simply lost hope that he could live as a good priest.
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RELIGION

Caravaggio's profane eye for the sacred
- Luke Walladge
- 22 July 2010
6 Comments
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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EUREKA STREET TV

Meditation guru's monastery without walls
- Peter Kirkwood
- 23 April 2010
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Big rat poems
- Christopher Kelen
- 02 December 2008
1 Comment
this poor house where ... as in the book of songs ... a famous rat eats the seedlings ... as they rise
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AUSTRALIA

Obama masks and New York monks
- Alexandra Collier
- 31 October 2008
1 Comment
In Brooklyn, politics and Halloween overlap. On one house, a 'Vote McCain' sign abuts another, declaring, 'Haunted House'. As the West Village prepares for its annual parade, the homeless sit in a curve, supplicating to the wealthy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Monastic gaze through money myopia
- Andrew Hamilton
- 13 October 2008
11 Comments
News last week of the death of Dom Placid Spearritt, Abbot of New Norcia Abbey, was set among the daily chronicles of financial collapse around the world. That seemed paradoxical.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

England writ grotesque
- Paddy O'Reilly
- 05 September 2008
The stories rub class against class, age against youth, the past against the present. The collection is imbued with old-fashioned charm and a postcolonial awareness of what damage old-fashioned England once wrought.
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INTERNATIONAL

Dummy cops leave child porn unchecked
- Harry Nicolaides
- 29 July 2008
11 Comments
Fibreglass police officers man checkpoints on the road to the Thai-Burmese border crossing at Mai Sai. At a market on the Burma side of the border, child pornography is peddled by the world's most malevolent cottage industry.
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