by Jason Welle | Feb 21, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Can you believe it’s almost been one year? March 13 – just a couple of weeks away – will be the first anniversary of that night in Rome when Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, stepped out onto a balcony at St. Peter’s Basilica and was...
by Nathaniel Romano, SJ | Feb 20, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Once, I made the fairly sensible suggestion that my Jesuit community re-name our “house technology & computer” guy to simply “house magician.” Much more accurate, I think. Accuracy aside (and support of our resident magician notwithstanding), the superior...
by Jay Hooks | Feb 20, 2014 | Catholic Writing ~ Approx. 14 mins
We’ve tried to cut a wide swath in our selection of interviewees for the Catholic Writing Series. We’ve polled poets, critics, and writers of fiction and memoir. We’ve spoken to men and women. We went beyond these United States, to our neighbor to...
by Quang Tran, SJ | Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
(Este artículo también está disponible en Español) How would you feel if your private journals were published posthumously? In the past, I journaled profusely, and I definitely want all my journals burned (and text messages deleted!) when I die, not for my sake but...
by Dennis Baker, SJ | Feb 19, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 4 mins
When we come home at the end of the day, before we turn on the lights in the house we know where everything is. That’s where I throw my keys, my coat goes here, shoes go there, my fridge is here, and the remote for my TV is here. Derek Jeter has been like that for me,...
by Garrett Gundlach, SJ | Feb 19, 2014 | TJPodcast ~ Approx. 1 min
If my soul were an iPad, then my prayer would be…. all those crazy finger gestures that are hard to explain but everyone knows by now, even three-year-olds: the drag, the swipe, the pinch, and the spread. Every one of our days opens hundreds of applications, filling...
by Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ | Feb 18, 2014 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2 mins
Este artículo también está disponible en Español Capable, qualified, proficient, suited, talented, adept, gifted, experienced, competent, and skillful: the thesaurus app on my phone never gets as much use as it does during this time of the year. ‘Tis the season when...
by Adam Rosinski, SJ | Feb 17, 2014 | TJPodcast ~ Approx. 1 min
A good friend and I had an adventure recently: a road trip from Philadelphia to Chicago straight through the polar vortex of 2014. When the road conditions became too bad, we swallowed our pride and found a hotel for the night. Sitting at the hotel bar, I was...
by Paul Lickteig, SJ | Feb 16, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 10 mins
Originalmente en inglés, traducido por Manuel Carrasco García-Moreno. Viajar cruzando las montañas de Nuevo México por la noche cuando tienes sueño atrasado es como montar en una extravagante montaña rusa de proporciones planetarias. El lento traqueteo del autobús no...
by Jeff Sullivan, SJ | Feb 14, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 4 mins
Valentine’s Day can feel like it has multiple personalities. It can be one of the following: A day where we show appreciation to someone we care about A day where we have to show appreciation to someone we don’t care about1 A sadomasochistic day that singles out...
