When I ride the subway to work in the morning usually the announcements of the train conductor are either just-the-facts-ma rsquo am basics or incoherent grumbles nbsp But every once in a while if we catch just the right train we straphangers are greeted by a quiet steady voice somehow both
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott writes about pop culture at jimmcdermott.substack.
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An Australian Take on the Pope’s Comments in Africa
The Society of Jesus in Australia runs a free online magazine like America called Eureka Street which covers affairs both local to Australia and international nbsp Fr Andrew Hamilton SJ is their consulting editor and a theologian teaching at the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne nbsp
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Analyzing Afghanistan
Last week Australian news program ldquo The 7 30 Report rdquo had an extensive interview with Australian counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen Kilcullen has been an important advisor to both the Bush and Obama administrations on military policy in Iraq and Afghanistan and is considered one
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The Hard Hand: Human rights violations in Mexico
Luis Arriage Valenzuela, S.J., is the director of Centro de Derechos Humanos Prodh, a Mexican human rights center begun in 1987 as a response to increasingly repressive policies by the Mexican government. Centro Prodh’s goal is to defend, promote and advocate for human rights through legal assistance. I spoke to Fr. Valenzulea about the current situation of human rights in Mexico earlier this month.
What are you seeing on the ground in Mexico today?
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Welcome to the ‘Dollhouse’
From the creator of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ a new show with much to say about the inviolability of human dignity.
Posted inOf Many Things
Of Many Things
Like everything else, the structures we create age, diminish and eventually die.
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Other Comments on AIDS and Condom Use in Africa
nbsp In our own pages Fr Michael Czerny S J director of the African Jesuits AIDS Network has spoken in similar terms about the crisis of AIDS in Africa nbsp We learn as we go along that AIDS is very complex H I V is a virus that reduces and destroys the immune system But it rsquo s al
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The Pope’s Comments on Condoms in Africa
Yesterday in a conversation with the press the Pope was widely cited as having said that the distribution of condoms would increase the problem of AIDS nbsp This has met with expected backlash agencies ranging from the World Health Organization and the New York Times to the French government
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Three Things You Might Not Know About St. Patrick
1 St Patrick was not Irish Patrick was actually a Welshman who was abducted as a child by Irish brigands He was a slave for six years before he escaped After his conversion experience and years of study he returned to Ireland to convert the Irish 2 nbsp nbsp It s very unlikely that St Pa