Keywords: Jesuit Communications
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 25 June 2010
35 Comments
Rudd's eviction should strike fear into the hearts of feminists
everywhere. For this is how the Labor Government operates, unsheathing
the swords, wrenching power, cutting down a leader before he has had
time to really prove himself. Imagine what it will do when that leader
is a woman.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
In 1975, during a near death experience, Cat Stevens called out to God. 'The moment I became a Muslim I found peace,' says the man now known as Yusuf Islam. He appears, solitary at the microphone, and begins an older man's
rendition of a younger man's songs.
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AUSTRALIA
- 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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anne Doyle
- 17 February 2010
3 Comments
Before long we come upon an open stone building — the meeting room. We
enter to find 60 weathered women seated on mats on the dirt floor.
Their saris fill the enclosure with colour. Their faces tell the
poignant stories of their lives.
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AUSTRALIA
- 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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INTERNATIONAL
- Beth Doherty
- 20 January 2010
4 Comments
Pat Robertson's comments about Haiti's 'pact with the devil' are unhelpful, when deeply religious Haitians are themselves wondering about God's role in the earthquake. A more welcome image of Christianity is visible in the aid agencies that are assisting in the relief efforts.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 11 January 2010
9 Comments
Whether grotesquely augmented, stricken with cancer or tumbling
unbidden from the frocks of soccer wives, breasts guarantee rapt
attention.
But never are these appendages more hotly debated than when they are being used according to their very purpose and design. October 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 19 October 2009
20 Comments
Whether grotesquely augmented, stricken with cancer or tumbling
unbidden from the frocks of soccer wives, breasts guarantee rapt
attention.
But never are these appendages more hotly debated than when they are being used according to their very purpose and design.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 31 August 2009
8 Comments
The issue is not whether South African athlete Caster Semenya is male, hyper-androgynous,
or, as she claims, 'entirely female'. More burdensome is the ferocious public response to a
predicament that clearly called for maturity and restraint.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Catherine Marshall
- 18 August 2009
5 Comments
One night 11 years ago I joined members of a local police commando to report on a mission to intercept Mozambique refugees travelling into South Africa. It is easier to 'tolerate the intolerance' in under-resourced, refugee-deluged South Africa than in Australia.
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ENVIRONMENT
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barbara Creed and Richard Leonard
- 18 March 2009
3 Comments
People have stopped going to church, but they still
have an eye for and an expectation of the mystical. At the cinema,
spectators, primed by the structures of the cinema itself, enter into
a mystical experience with the shadow world being played out before them.
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