The Berlin Wall
John Looby SJ - 01 February 2012
More people remember the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 than remember its construction in August 1961, fifty years ago. Maybe I am the exception because I was preparing to begin the study of theology in Germany the following month. Many were predicting that the Wall meant war. In the event it didn’t. In fact it probably averted war. For the Communists of East Berlin it blocked the escape of their citizens into free West Berlin, and the Western Powers were not prepared to challenge it.
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Paul Andrews SJ - 01 February 2012
One could easily be nostalgic for the 1932 Congress. It was such a unifying event. The country had just witnessed its first peaceful change of government since independence. As th ...
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Saint Francis Xavier
Philip Fogarty SJ - 01 February 2012
Francis reached Mozambique, in south-eastern Africa, in September 1541. It was here for the first time that he came across the slave trade. One of his fellow travellers on board t ...
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