by Quentin Dupont, SJ | Jan 5, 2014 | Papal News ~ Approx. 3 mins
I am trying to resist “Francis mania.” Really, I am. It’s like a fever that has overtaken any number my friends, not a few websites (not to mention, ahem, this one), and not a small part of myself already, but I’m fighting it. Really. The reason for my...
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | Jan 2, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
On January 6, 1994 – about a month before the Winter Olympics were to begin in Lillehammer, Norway – Shane Stant walked into Cobo Arena in Detroit and waited, weapon in hand. His target was Nancy Kerrigan: 1992 Olympic bronze medallist, favorite to win gold at the...
by Martin Ngo, SJ | Jan 2, 2014 | TJPodcast ~ Approx. 1 min
So you made it. 2013 was no match for you. Or maybe it was the other way around. It doesn’t matter—IT’S A NEW YEAR! YAYYYYY!!! *Insert loud kazoo sound* If your eyes haven’t rolled up behind your eyebrows yet maybe you’re still looking for that clue, a sign, an...
by Joe Hoover, SJ | Jan 1, 2014 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 9 mins
Just looking at Tom Osborne could be enough to make you cry. No, not just on the night in question: that night thirty years ago he raised two fingers in the air, and Turner Gill lined up over center, and rolled right, and sighted Jeff Smith, and let the ball go...
by Garrett Gundlach, SJ | Dec 25, 2013 | TJPodcast ~ Approx. 1 min
Long before the days of electricity and its bulbs and switches, God has been breaking into dark splotches of our world with a rising light. Light without electricity? Think torches and Boy Scout bonfires. This Christmas, I’m fascinated by God’s breaking...
by Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ | Dec 24, 2013 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
As she lay in the recovery ward of the hospital tangled up in tubes, surrounded by beeping machines, exhausted from emergency surgery and loopy on pain medication, my mother managed to mutter a phrase that let me know she was doing alright in spite of her recent...
by Paul Lickteig, SJ | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 9 mins
Driving through the mountains of New Mexico at night when you are starved of sleep is like riding a bizarro world roller coaster. The slow rattling of the bus does not create an adrenalized thrill-ride so much as, over the course of hours spent lurching along sheer...
by Matt Spotts, SJ | Dec 21, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 3 mins
Originalmente en Inglés, traducido por Manuel Carrasco García-Moreno No es raro que mis redes sociales sean algo parecido a una avalancha de noticias sobre el papa Francisco: es un gaje del oficio que viene de (a) ser jesuita y (b) conocer a un montón de católicos....
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | Dec 19, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Christmas a humbug? Not for me! (Well, maybe those years when I worked retail…) And with all due respect to Clark Griswold and Mr. Narwahl, my favorite movie to watch this time of year is any adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Ah, but which to choose? Below is the...
by Brian Strassburger, SJ | Dec 19, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
Wave after wave of sweaty, exhausted strangers passed me by. Laboring for each breath of air, their contorted faces grimaced in visible pain with every step. I stood there staring, surrounded by screaming onlookers. Friends said I was crazy to trek down to Central...
