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The Management of the Church 23 Aug 2013 | 06:22 pm
The way in which business leaders think and operate has changed a great deal in recent decades, writes Quentin de la Bédoyère, particularly when it comes to management structures in their organisation...
Film Review: Elysium 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
There is manifestly more truth embodied in the sprawling energy of the earthly neighbourhoods than in the empty back yards and vacant terraces of Elysium. If this is, in fact, an indirect acknowledgem...
Voss by Patrick White 19 Aug 2013 | 08:52 pm
The 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Australian author Patrick White for his ‘epic and psychological narrative art’. Karen Eliasen recently rediscovered one of his novels and was captiva...
Hurtado Jesuit Centre: ‘Our neighbour is Christ’ 16 Aug 2013 | 10:11 pm
The Feast of Alberto Hurtado SJ on 18 August gives Andrea Kelly occasion to reflect on the work of the centre in East London that bears the name of the Chilean Jesuit saint. How does the unique approa...
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary 14 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
On 15 August we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady. Dr Sarah Jane Boss, Director of the Centre for Marian Studies at the University of Roehampton, looks at the history of this great Mar...
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 13 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories is this week’s choice for our summer reading list. Dennis Recio SJ marvels at Lahiri’s subtle attention to detail and the way in whic...
The Letter to the Hebrews 9 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
When we file out of church at the end of Sunday Mass, we may well remember the topic of the gospel and retain points from the homily preached on it, but what if we were to be asked about the passage r...
Film Review: The Lone Ranger 9 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
Any drama that underestimates the intelligence of its audience is doomed to failure. In this sense, The Lone Ranger is flawed at its very core. An even greater mistake, perhaps, is the complete lack o...
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson 7 Aug 2013 | 10:49 pm
This week’s recommended reading comes from the science fiction genre. David Baird thinks that you really must read a little-known 1970 novel by Poul Anderson ‘The soul of , in a phrase, is the quest o...
Ignatius of Loyola: ‘Placed with the Son’ 5 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
In a homily for the Feast of St Ignatius Loyola on 31 July, Fr Michael Holman SJ described his visit to a chapel just outside Rome that Ignatius himself visited in 1537. As he prayed there, the founde...
