by Jason Welle | Mar 19, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
[Editor’s note: News broke just a few hours after this piece was posted that Fred Phelps, Sr. died a little before midnight on March 19. May he rest in peace.] Many people would like to see Fred Phelps, Sr. dead. More, they’d like him to suffer while he dies....
by Quang Tran, SJ | Mar 19, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 3 mins
Jesus, Friend, Quang here. I hope you’re not as tired of me talking to you about Pope Francis – good choice by the way – as he is tired of the world talking about him. You know that when I talk about him, I’m really trying to talk about you. While I’m...
by Eric Immel, SJ | Mar 18, 2014 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
I am a notoriously deep sleeper. For many years my alarm clock screamed its reprehensibly repetitive anthem for ten, fifteen, twenty minutes at a time, much to the dismay of anyone whose walls were adjacent to mine. When I lived in Madison, WI, my bedroom looked out...
by Jeff Sullivan, SJ | Mar 17, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Alright, alright, I know, I know…this video? Again? If you are one of the over 50 million viewers of this video, then please bear with me. If you haven’t seen it, give it a watch. Yes, the video was produced and edited for an obscure hipster clothing company....
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Mar 17, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 4 mins
Andrew Romano over at the Daily Beast really liked HBO’s True Detective; his final review calls the show ‘close to perfect.’ I liked the series as well, but I’m not willing to go quite that far in my praise. I’m with Emily Nussbaum at The New Yorker on the ways in...
by Joe Wotawa | Mar 13, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 5 mins
The smell of human shit wakes me up in the morning, and I hate it. What makes it worse is that it comes from an alley behind my house, and when I cross it to get to my car, I know that I’m (at least partially) responsible for the smell. My house is small and old. The...
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | Mar 13, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Today is the one year anniversary of white smoke lifting out of a Vatican chimney and Jorge Cardinal Bergoglio stepping onto the balcony to wish us, “Good evening.” The New York Times, CNN, and the American Jesuits each have put their best foot forward to explain...
by Jason Welle | Mar 12, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 6 mins
How do you measure a year – especially when it’s the first year of a new pope who’s made waves the way Pope Francis has? We asked for your help in creating a #Playlist4Pontifex, and boy, did you deliver! From all over the world, you gave us songs in different...
by Eric Immel, SJ | Mar 12, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 5 mins
Originalmente en inglés, traducido por Manuel Carrasco García-Moreno Hace poco, en un viaje en autobús de Chicago a Omaha, me encontré con que estaba sentado junto a una mujer de unos 50 años, animada y guapa, con mucho estilo y un espíritu generoso. Por lo general,...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Mar 11, 2014 | Blogs ~ Approx. 5 mins
Middle school sucks. Everything changes in middle school. Few things were more awkward than the schoolyard in sixth grade. We’d all recently been moved up from various primary schools, so our social circles and playground norms were more fluid than before. This wasn’t...
