by Ken Homan, SJ | Apr 23, 2019 | Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
“Ugh, this isn’t another one of those ‘figure out what’s wrong with millenials’ pieces is it?” my friend scoffed. I had asked why she often goes to brunch instead of Mass. “You’re not going to try to rope me into going to Mass, are you?” I assured her it was not that...
by Danny Gustafson, SJ | Apr 22, 2019 | Catholic Writing, Education, In the News ~ Approx. 3 mins
“And when you see Schall on campus, please greet him. You’ll know it’s Schall because he’s a cleric and only has one eye. See you Wednesday.” These were unusual words with which to end the first day of class, but then again, there wasn’t much about Fr. James V....
by Michael Rossmann, SJ | Apr 20, 2019 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
Christ is risen! We better pay attention, says Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ in this One-Minute Homily for Easter Sunday.
by Colten Biro | Apr 19, 2019 | Holy Week, In the News, Lent, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
Monday of Holy Week: I found out about the fire at Notre Dame from a student on her way out of class on Monday. I walked from my classroom to my office, scrolling through the twitter images of the spires, flames, blackened stone, and crowds aghast in horror of the...
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...
