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...drab, sooty Belfast, grimly preparing to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace. Without much conviction, carolers sang Joy to the World outside Belfast's city hall, where a Union Jack hung limply from its pole and a signboard listed the latest number of military and civilian deaths???1,140 since 1969. Even the seasonal slogan jointly adopted by Ulster's Catholic and Protestant church leaders had a desperate quality about it: "For God's sake, let peace begin in our land this Christmas time...
...before a camera; there has never been anything like the sheer bulk of visual documentation left as the residue of a popular-photography culture. People and events seem ghostly unless they have been verified by a camera. Wars, elections, riots, disasters, communal ecstasies, the speeches of politicians and their deaths???all are eaten up by the omnivorous lens, as photography (through journalism) defines the terms of our fictitious intimacy with the world...
...Jesuit priests, brothers and scholastics in 1966, but by the end of 1972 there were fewer than 31,000. Some of the lost numbers are men abandoning the order?so many in recent years that the newspaper of the society's Oregon province has a feature headlined DEATHS???LEAVES?DEPARTURES. The emigrants are not merely from the ranks, either. U.S. Jesuits who have left have included such eminent names as Theologian Bernard Cooke, Maryland Provincial Edward Sponga and former Woodstock College Rector Felix Cardegna. In addition, the number of new recruits has plunged, especially in developed countries...
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