by Brian Strassburger, SJ | Apr 18, 2019 | Holy Week, In the News, Pop Culture, Sports ~ Approx. 3 mins
Last Sunday, Tiger Woods made a remarkable comeback after years plagued by scandal, irrelevance, and injury to win his 15th major championship and fifth Masters tournament. As a sports story, it is truly impressive. But let’s not call it a redemption story. Millions...
by Billy Critchley-Menor, SJ | Apr 17, 2019 | Blogs, Holy Week, Lent, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
One thing poet and memoirist Mary Karr loves about Catholicism is the idea “that we are hunks of meat.” It was what she calls “sacred carnality” that led her to embrace Catholicism. “What I liked about the Catholic Church” she says, “is that there is a body on the...
by Bill McCormick, SJ | Apr 16, 2019 | Global Catholicism, Spirituality ~ Approx. 2 mins
Much media coverage of the burning Notre Dame de Paris missed a simple but fundamental point: Notre Dame was a church. The news stories and social media comments made many good points. Notre Dame was a beautiful building, it contained priceless art, many of us have...
by Ian Peoples, SJ | Apr 14, 2019 | One-Minute Homily ~ Approx. 1 min
Who’s the greatest? On this Palm Sunday, Jesus shows us true greatness through his humility. Check out this week’s One-Minute Homily by Ian Peoples, SJ. Based on the readings for Palm Sunday, March 14, 2019, which you can find here:...
by Brian Strassburger, SJ | Apr 12, 2019 | In the News, Pop Culture, Sports ~ Approx. 3 mins
You might have missed the best story of March Madness this year. No, it wasn’t Virginia’s story of redemption, as good as that was. It was a story about losing. By now, you have heard about the newly crowned NCAA Men’s Basketball National Champions at the University...
by Chris Williams, SJ | Apr 10, 2019 | Blogs, Humor, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
This post was originally published on April 11, 2018. *** It was like a scene out of a Cohen brothers dark comedy (think Fargo). My friend and I were having lunch at a Jesuit retirement community, which was typically a wonderful time to take in old stories and wisdom...
by Ken Homan, SJ | Apr 8, 2019 | Economics, Faith & Politics, Justice ~ Approx. 5 mins
What do you call someone who teaches classes, grades materials, lectures, guides labs, facilitates study groups, and completes thousands of hours of research while also studying and writing theses or dissertations? According to most universities, you’d call that...
by Colten Biro | Apr 5, 2019 | Film, In the News, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 5 mins
With a single snap of Thanos’s fingers, Marvel fans were left with desperate and heart-wrenching goodbyes and credits running in silence at the end of Avengers: Infinity War. For a year now Marvel fans have found themselves wrestling with a single question: What is...
by Colten Biro | Apr 4, 2019 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
I’m nearly certain a drop of sweat was slowly crawling down my forehead, and it was not hot. We stood outside of a church, pinned off to the side of the crowd exiting after mass. In front of me, an older woman, spatterings of grey hair and a few creases hanging on the...
by Billy Critchley-Menor, SJ | Apr 3, 2019 | Faith & Politics, Global Catholicism, Pope Francis, Youth Synod ~ Approx. 5 mins
Christ is alive, and wants to draw young people to the center of a young Church. This is Pope Francis’ message in the apostolic exhortation he released yesterday, Christus vivit. The exhortation is long, probably too long for a document addressed to young people. It...
