by Bill McCormick, SJ | Oct 29, 2015 | Faith & Politics ~ Approx. 5 mins
Donald Trump. Income inequality. Government shutdowns. School shootings. The refugee crisis. Immigration reform. Declining wages. Health care costs. Campaign finance. Congressional leadership. Donald Trump. Outsourcing. Culture wars. Lobbyists. Ferguson. Homelessness....
by Damian Torres-Botello, SJ | Oct 28, 2015 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
Last week a good friend called me in tears. “Damian, there is something I need to share with you, but I don’t know how.” I imagined her on the kitchen floor leaning against the fridge, a roll of toilet paper as tissues unraveling beside her, and a jug of pulp-free...
by Eric Immel, SJ | Oct 27, 2015 | Faith & Family, Sexuality ~ Approx. 2 mins
“Will you go out with me?” It’s a terrifying question once awkwardly muttered by romantically untried youths everywhere. No longer. I may have first uttered the words during a teen night at my local YMCA, or perhaps over my family’s landline on a Thursday – the...
by Andy Nguyen, SJ | Oct 26, 2015 | Justice, Pope Francis ~ Approx. 4 mins
In following Pope Francis’ visit to the United States, I was moved by a report of New Yorkers moved to tears after just a brief moment of seeing Francis on the popemobile passing by. The last time I saw such a cheering, adoring, tearing, screaming and selfie-ing crowd...
by Michael Rossmann, SJ | Oct 22, 2015 | Pop Culture ~ Approx. 2min
Many road trips have been filled with discussions of my favorite icebreakers: If you could invite any three people to dinner, whom would you invite?1 If you could keep only five U.S. states, which would you keep?2 Or, an even more entertaining one: If you could get...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Oct 20, 2015 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 5 mins
Our father left us. Not in the permanent, out-for-a-smoke-never-to-return, kind of way. He left us habitually; that is to say, with regularity. He left us outside of supermarkets and soccer games, hardware stores and nurseries. “Here’s a shopping...
by Lucas Sharma, SJ | Oct 19, 2015 | Humor, In the News, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 3 mins
View image | gettyimages.com People in my life know that I love the same few things, which makes gift-giving really easy. Puppies. Martha Stewart. JCrew. And soap operas. When I began watching soap operas more than ten years ago, they were an active part of the...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Oct 15, 2015 | Catholic Writing, Spirituality ~ Approx. 2min
“A poem,” Robert Frost wrote, “begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” In our preaching course, professor Bob VerEecke, SJ encourages us future-priests to break from the boring ease of staid prose....
by Garrett Gundlach, SJ | Oct 13, 2015 | Blogs, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
Fifteen minutes into my first retreat as high school campus minister, I found myself sitting in a big circle with all the student leaders of the school. We were playing the classic ice-breaker, “Two Truths and a Lie.” As the game snaked its way around the circle...
by Matt Stewart, SJ | Oct 12, 2015 | Sports ~ Approx. 5 mins
View image | gettyimages.com My dad was very amused at the inappropriate level of anger I was showing at the TV screen. He was curious why something like this could stir up such deep emotions in his non-sports-fanatic son.1 But the truth is, one of the more...
