Keywords: The House On The Hill
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AUSTRALIA
Northern Ireland has celebrated a year of normal political life. If St Paul got hit by a bolt of lightning, what persuaded Ian Paisley to change from a brand-name for bigotry into a reasonable human being?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 21 April 2008
Like people, no book is exactly symmetrical. Often the cover belies the interior, just as the bright faces
of people often hide the stories beneath. Many we ignore too easily, a million we will never know, such being the way of the world.
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AUSTRALIA
- Vivienne Kelly
- 09 January 2008
Tim
Costello was recently asked whether he thought his brother would ever
be Prime Minister. He gave a wry and elegant answer that played with
the notion of the difficulty of relinquishing power in the saga of the Lord of the Rings. From 19 September 2007.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Carol Ransley and Toe Zaw Latt
- 15 November 2007
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Carol Ransley and Toe Zaw Latt provide an update on civil-military relations in Burma.
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AUSTRALIA
- Vivienne Kelly
- 19 September 2007
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Tim Costello was recently asked whether he thought his brother would ever be Prime Minister. He gave a wry and elegant answer that played with the notion of the difficulty of relinquishing power in the saga of the Lord of the Rings.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 08 August 2007
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This year marks the centenary of the birth of Pedro Arrupe, the Basque Jesuit who worked in Japan and later became the Jesuits' Superior General. He was present at Hiroshima on 6 August 6 1945, the day on which the atomic bomb was dropped.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 25 July 2007
A poem recollecting visits to the Jesuit-run Belvedere College, in the north of Dublin, where James Joyce had most of his secondary schooling.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 25 July 2007
Country people are welcoming. They smile at you, however vaguely, passing in the street, and shopkeepers and tradespeople are invariably polite and helpful. But there is the odd exception, sometimes the very odd exception.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Brian Doyle considers the people of his neighbourhood
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RELIGION
- James Massola
- 02 April 2007
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Jesuit peace activist John Dear is continuing the tradition of civil disobedience pioneererd by the Berrigan brothers in the 1960s. A month in Australia has convinced him that we want to give up our freedoms in order to become part of the new American Empire.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank Brennan
- 27 February 2007
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One of Jesuit congressman Robert Drinan's political claims to fame was that he had moved the first motion of impeachment against Richard Nixon. He showed that the mix of politics and religion on Capitol Hill was difficult, especially concerning abortion.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jonathan Hill
- 23 December 2006
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After a visit to Ngukurr in Arnhem Land, a return home to Sydney and the horrifying reality of a culture that measures progress by the extent to which humans can destroy the land.
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