by Billy Critchley-Menor, SJ | Jan 25, 2018 | Blogs, Catholic Writing, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
A few months ago, I made an eight-day silent retreat. Following St. Ignatius’s advice, I began my prayer trying to “see myself standing before God our Lord.” Sitting in silence with closed eyes, I tried to concentrate and see God before me. Image after image slid...
by Colten Biro | Jan 23, 2018 | Art, Humor, In the News, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 2min
With two simple questions, Google’s Arts and Culture App sparked a fascinating trend: “Is your portrait in a museum?” “Take a selfie and search thousands of artworks to see if any look like you.” The 2-year-old App began as an attempt to offer tours and artwork from...
by Henoch Derbew | Jan 21, 2018 | In the News ~ Approx. 5 mins
Criticism of our sitting president has become commonplace. Though almost always accurate, such criticism is sometimes accompanied by an implicit assumption that things were virtually perfect before his presidency, all the while signalling one’s own progressivism (i.e....
by Ken Homan, SJ | Jan 21, 2018 | One-Minute Homily, Spirituality, Videos ~ Approx. 1 min
Do you get nervous if someone says to you… “we need to talk”? Check out this week’s One-Minute Reflection with Br. Ken Homan, SJ. Based on the readings for Sunday, January 21, which you can read here: http://bit.ly/2DCZMIz
by Chris Williams, SJ | Jan 17, 2018 | Blogs, Film, Pope Francis, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
A striking scene in the recent film Darkest Hour comes when Winston Churchill, in a particularly anguished moment, pauses his dictation of a difficult letter and asks about a photo on the desk of his typist, Elizabeth. She reveals that it is her brother, was recently...
by Ken Homan, SJ | Jan 16, 2018 | Catholic Writing, Film, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 3 mins
New Year’s resolutions seem to fall clunkily in the middle of the school year – with the return to classes, assignments, and squirrely students, the start of the new semester can leave me a bit weary and jaded from frustrations of the first. Amidst my hope for a...
by Bill McCormick, SJ | Jan 15, 2018 | Faith & Politics, In the News ~ Approx. 1min
Today is Martin Luther King Jr Day. There can be no better tribute to his memory than to re-read his words, or read them for the first time: “I Have a Dream” “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” “Nonviolence and Racial Justice” And many...
by Eric Immel, SJ | Jan 11, 2018 | Blogs, Faith & Politics, Pop Culture, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
On a rare morning of quiet, I lit a fire, poured hot coffee into a Star Wars mug, and settled into a squashy armchair to read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In moments, I was moving across the dark grounds of a vast castle school, wand at the ready for an...
by Lucas Sharma, SJ | Jan 9, 2018 | Film, Gender, In the News ~ Approx. 2min
On Sunday night, Oprah Winfrey accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award. In her acceptance speech, she powerfully remembered the many women who have been victimized by men throughout human history. Speaking of the recently deceased Recy Taylor – an African American woman...
by Brendan Gottschall, SJ | Jan 7, 2018 | In the News, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
I had just sat down by the Christmas tree at my grandmother’s house, when I saw the first Tweet about the Bronx fire of a couple weeks ago: a multi-story apartment building in the Belmont section of the Bronx near the zoo up in flames. I gulped. I dreaded that it...
