by Matt Spotts, SJ | Jul 31, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
So the Black Death hit SoCal. Sort of. Over the last few weeks, media outlets worldwide have reported that parts of the Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County were shut down when a squirrel was discovered to be carrying a variation of the bubonic plague. No...
by Jason Welle | Jul 30, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 3 mins
A year-and-a-half ago, when I was in Cuernavaca, Mexico on a faculty-staff seminar immersion, I heard a story told of a bishop in northern Mexico who, one Christmas Eve, abruptly entered the cathedral before mass and, announcing to the assembled worshippers that there...
by Jake Martin, SJ | Jul 29, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
File another one under: “Yay, he’s on our side!” I’m not one to get all into who’s Catholic and who isn’t, but sometimes … it’s worth celebrating. Jim Gaffigan is a very funny man; Catholic too, and he’s got the five kids to prove it. A recent article in...
by Matt Stewart, SJ | Jul 29, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 10 mins
Not all that long ago a fellow Fordham student (and loyal TJP reader) posted an interesting video about introverts on Facebook.1 As a raging, falling-off-the-boat, say-everything-that-comes-to-my-head extrovert, I found the video informative – and kind of...
by Chris Schroeder, SJ | Jul 27, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 3 mins
I watched it on a jumbotron, ready to be sometimes confused, occasionally prayerful, and mostly bored. It was going to be standard, if Catholic, public pageantry, but lacking the usual commentary track of disembodied voices speaking quasi-reverently over the...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Jul 26, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
The Artist Formerly Known as Prince 1994 to 674-weeks-ago Tuesday How can you kick off a memorial note to the Twin Cities without a little ‘The Artist?’ Love Symbol #2 is gone, Prince is once again Prince, and this is left behind: Prince – The Most Beautiful...
by Jason Welle | Jul 24, 2013 | MAG+S & WYD ~ Approx. 3 mins
Nothing could dampen the enthusiasm at last night’s World Youth Day Rio 2013 kick off celebration. Cold? Rain? Power-outage on the subway? Nothing. A party thousands strong right on Copacabana Beach was both rockin’ and prayerful. Oh yes, I said it: rockin’ and...
by Billy Biegler, SJ | Jul 24, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Apparently, cross dressing can offer some invaluable life lessons. At least it did for Dustin Hoffman. One of The Hoff’s more cultic movies was the 1982 comedy-drama, Tootsie. In it, Hoffman played a neurotic and promising actor, Michael Dorsey, who is forced to live...
by Michael Rozier, SJ | Jul 23, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
On 22 July, Buckingham Palace announced (by a combination of town crier and easel in front of the palace, obviously. I mean, how else?) , “Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4:24 today.” It is hard to imagine a baby born...
by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Jul 22, 2013 | MAG+S & WYD ~ Approx. 3 mins
On the way to an airport, bedraggled and sleep deprived, I found myself on a bus with a random assortment of backpacks and young adults. Seated in front of me was a young man from Australia. I recognized Tom from the previous day. He asked a great question during...
