by Alfonso Pizano | Mar 24, 2017 | Film ~ Approx. 4 mins
In 1991 Disney made history when “Beauty and the Beast” became the first animated film ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture (See above). Now, Disney has re-imagined “Beauty and the Beast” as a live action film. This remake counts on...
by Eric Immel, SJ | Mar 23, 2017 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
“I thought about him every day for eighteen years,” she said. “And we may have been a little delayed, but now, it feels just perfect.” *** My flight was delayed 45 minutes. Moments before the delay was announced, I was sprinting through the Chicago Midway Airport,...
by The Jesuit Post | Mar 22, 2017 | Sports ~ Approx. 2 mins
Embed from Getty Images You probably know someone like us. Our weekly Thursday meeting was moved to Wednesday. A Friday conference call was scheduled for the Creighton game’s halftime. The mood at Saturday’s dinner was funereal, West Virginia having...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Mar 20, 2017 | Education, Spirituality ~ Approx. 5 mins
A great man died Saturday morning. And I hardly knew him. Rev. J. Donald Monan of the Society of Jesus passed away peacefully in a Jesuit health care facility west of Boston. Fr. Monan was president of Boston College from 1972 to 1996, steering the university from a...
by Garrett Gundlach, SJ | Mar 15, 2017 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
The call arrived at 7:12am, two minutes after morning Mass ended. Sister Barb got it first; her 90’s throwback Nokia ringtone echoed in the church vestibule. Then Father Edmund’s, the ubiquitous iPhone ringtone. My pulse quickened, excited, as they both put it on...
by Pierce Gibson, SJ | Mar 13, 2017 | Education, Faith & Politics ~ Approx. 4 mins
I hadn’t been listening to her translation. Like all good undergraduate Latin students, I was busy looking over the following paragraph in mortal dread of being called on next to translate in front of the class. But I finished just in time to hear her complete the...
by David Inczauskis, SJ | Mar 10, 2017 | Music, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 6 mins
Embed from Getty Images We’ve all been waiting for it, and now it’s here: new music from Lorde. The artist behind “Royals” and “Team” is back, and her return comes with a dramatic shift in sub-genre and theme. Melodrama is the name of the fresh album, with tracks...
by Andrew Hanson | Mar 8, 2017 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
The ‘D’ subway car is packed today, which requires me to lean ever so slightly to make space for the two women who slide into the seats next to me. My eyes are focused on the book I’m reading, but my ears perk when I hear one speaking Portuguese to the other. I...
by Ken Homan, SJ | Mar 6, 2017 | Education, Justice, Spirituality ~ Approx. 5 mins
Clicks and bright flashes. Hop off the bus, take some photos, hop back on, and head to the next stop. My students saw these beautiful but sad creatures in their natural habitat. Poor Ecuadorians invited us into their homes, showing us their dirt floors, cardboard...
by Ken Homan, SJ | Mar 3, 2017 | Faith & Politics, Race ~ Approx. 4 mins
I am living the American dream, but it’s only while people who look like Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, are living the American nightmare. You probably already know the story about my American dream. My parents grew up in working-class...
