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Keywords: Richard Leonard

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Finding God in the Dark: Spirituality and the Cinema

    • Richard Leonard
    • 27 February 2007
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    This is the full text of a speech given by Richard Leonard SJ in Queensland on spirituality and cinema, on the occasion of the opening of a new spirituality centre.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Jesuit premise fails but resilience of humanity proved

    • Richard Leonard
    • 21 August 2006
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    As the fascinating Seven Up documentary series develops, the supposed principle of St Ignatius—'give me a boy until he is seven, and I will give you the man'—is found to be increasingly untrue.  

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Colourful ties

    • Jenny Zimmer
    • 15 June 2006

    Jenny Zimmer looks at Patrick McCaughey’s The Bright Shapes and the True Names.

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  • RELIGION

    Dan Brown’s favour to Christianity

    • Richard Leonard
    • 29 May 2006
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    A good read, a tedious film, a historical mess, and great publicity for the Catholic Church. Richard Leonard looks at The Da Vinci Code.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
    • 25 April 2006

    Reviews of the films The Assassination of Richard Nixon, 2046 and Ae Fond Kiss.

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