by Eric Immel, SJ | Dec 17, 2013 | Blogs ~ Approx. 4 mins
I am among the most privileged people on the planet. I’m a white male American. I’m a well fed college-educated able-bodied Christian. I’ve been given many advantages in life and, as a Jesuit, I try to acknowledge and respond to my privilege in part through direct...
by Jason Welle | Dec 13, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 3 mins
We would have liked to be able to commemorate the one year anniversary of the Sandy Hook School shootings in Newtown more hopefully. We would have liked to commemorate that awful day by looking back on a year of progress – in prayer, in legislation – that...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Dec 13, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Delbert Tibbs 1939 to two-weeks-ago Saturday Tibbs was a black man who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. A Chicagoan wandering through Fort Meyers, Florida in 1974, he was arrested, convicted and condemned for a murder and rape that happened 250...
by James Martin, SJ | Dec 13, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 6 mins
Originalmente en Inglés, traducido por Manuel Carrsaco García-Moreno Al contrario que la mayoría de los que escriben para el Jesuit Post, yo no soy exactamente un “jesuita joven”. Tengo 51 años. (Por otra parte, en estos tiempos, cualquiera que tenga menos de 90 años...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Dec 12, 2013 | Blogs ~ Approx. 5 mins
Occasionally students will email me with questions that they fear may be too personal for class. I tell them that in an “Ignatian Spirituality” class, ‘personal’ questions are the only ones that really interest me. After a recent discussion on ‘spiritual experiences’...
by Alejandro Olayo-Méndez, SJ | Dec 12, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 4 mins
What did you notice today? Back, when I was teaching high school it’s that question that I used to pose, over and over again, to my sophomore students. What did you notice today? Sometimes they were annoyed by the question, sometimes inspired by it, but the...
by David Lugo | Dec 12, 2013 | TJPodcast ~ Approx. 1 min
David and Louie had never seen the movie, “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. In this podcast they give their first impressions of what they think the movie will be about and after a brief jazzy time-lapse they finally watch the movie and give their...
by Jason Welle | Dec 11, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
An all-girls Catholic school has launched a new ad campaign, taking aim at “Princess Culture.” The ad campaign’s new, but the underlying message is deeply embedded in the school’s tradition. Now, we Jesuits run a lot of schools, but we’re not the experts on educating...
by Jason Welle | Dec 11, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 3 mins
Originalmente en Inglés, traducido por Manuel Carrasco García-Moreno Una escuela católica femenina ha iniciado una nueva campaña publicitaria, posicionándose en contra de la “Cultura de la Princesa”. La campaña es novedosa, pero el mensaje de fondo está profundamente...
by Michael Rozier, SJ | Dec 9, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 6 mins
The landscape of American health care is shifting beneath our feet. And if anyone pretends to know where it is going, they’re fooling themselves. Private insurers thought they would make out well, but the low enrollment on health exchanges puts them at risk. ...
