by Joe Hoover, SJ | Dec 2, 2014 | Spirituality ~ Approx. 10 mins
Some Catholics are the priest on the south side of Chicago who went up to a crack house at midnight, knocked on the door and told the people inside to shut it down and leave his parish. Some Catholics are the military couple who recently ushered their seven sons and...
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | Dec 2, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
The days around Thanksgiving are when college football is ripest. It’s pure, unfiltered, crisp fall air. It’s the cracking of leaves under your feet. It’s the The Game when Harvard beat Yale 29-29. It’s “Punt, Bama, Punt!” and that poor Stanford trombonist and “Hello,...
by Matt White | Dec 1, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Hope often emerges out of the messiness of life, it often arises in the midst of suffering. If things were perfect, there would be no need for that profound longing we call hope. Not every story of hope is a feel good story. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, Children of...
by Peter Folan, SJ | Nov 30, 2014 | Spirituality ~ Approx. 6 mins
I grew up in a purple parish, by which I do not mean that Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Massapequa Park, NY was a happy blend of Republican red and Democrat blue. It may have been, but I have something else on my mind. And like so much else at this time of year,...
by Brian Strassburger, SJ | Nov 27, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 10 mins
In late January of 2013, I took off in a tiny propeller airplane from the Caribbean-esque capital city of Georgetown, Guyana bound for Kurukabaru, a small village in the country’s isolated interior. I was a Jesuit novice, going to spend three months with Jesuit...
by Juan Ruiz, SJ | Nov 26, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
The cover of the November 2014 issue of The Atlantic is a provocative article about “Why Kids Sext”. I’m only 26, but after reading it I realized that there are some large differences between my generation and the next. This is not the naughty texts or anonymous...
by Louie Hotop, SJ and Matt Wooters, SJ | Nov 25, 2014 | In the News ~ Approx. 3 mins
#459563126 / gettyimages.com Last night, we, along with three other Jesuits currently studying at St. Louis University, went to Ferguson to be present with the community there for the press conference where we learned that Darren Wilson would not be indicted for...
by The Jesuit Post | Nov 25, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Over on our Patheos channel, Paddy Gilger takes a (deeper) look at the Kim Kardashian photos: I have spent more time than I care to admit – by which I mean any time at all – looking at this photograph of Kim Kardashian and feeling annoyed. It took me a few moments of...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Nov 25, 2014 | Blogs ~ Approx. 5 mins
If you’ve ever tried to relight a cigarette you know the tar-bitter taste of an old smoke. If you’ve ever pulled a butt out of an ashtray having realized that your last pack was empty you also know the nagging perversion of addiction. In a really desperate moment you...
by Marcos Gonzales | Nov 24, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
A year ago Amnesty International ran an ad campaign with the words “It’s not happening here. But it is happening now.” These words have been running through my mind since first hearing about the 43 disappeared students from the Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa, in...
