by Tim O'Brien, SJ | May 29, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Once upon a time, many of us were taught that there are three topics that are best avoided in polite company: religion, sex, and politics. And yet the fusion of the three has been seemingly unavoidable in recent years. This is especially visible in Christian Churches...
by Quang Tran, SJ | May 28, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Recently, Angelina Jolie published an op-ed in the New York Times disclosing her decision to undergo a double mastectomy. The procedure began on Feb. 2 of this year and finished in April. Her own mother died from breast cancer at 56, and just yesterday her aunt died...
by Joe Hoover, SJ | May 27, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 6 mins
For about nine years I trained for the priesthood in the Jesuits. During that time I noticed that all books and films about priests follow one of five basic story lines. They are about: 1. A priest struggling on behalf of the poor. 2. A priest questioning the...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | May 27, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Today is Memorial Day across the United States, a holiday welcomed for a host of different reasons. Likely the most common is that it marks the unofficial start to the summer season. A close second might be the much-anticipated Indianapolis 500, always run on this...
by The Jesuit Post | May 26, 2013 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 3 mins
As we head into the summer, it’s time to run down the last month at TJP. (Yes, we know — it’s been a whole month! What can we say? Most of us here are grad students of one sort or another, and it’s been exam season.) But other milestones than exams...
by Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ | May 23, 2013 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
The message arrived unexpectedly in my Facebook inbox, dealing with an even more unexpected subject: Church law. It was from a high school classmate of mine, someone with whom I haven’t spoken with in a dozen years. (When I wrote and asked her if I could tell this...
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | May 23, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Throwback Thursday knows that it’s so hard to say goodbye. Earlier this month, we bade farewell to the employees of the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin, employees we saw fall in love and out of love with each other, employees we saw at their best and at their most...
by Quang Tran, SJ | May 21, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of violence, injustice and sin. — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) March 24, 2013 Pope Francis does not shy away from talking about the devil, and people have started to notice....
by Chris Schroeder, SJ | May 21, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
One of my favorite signs from the Occupy Movement last year went something like this: “I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.” So pithy! So clever! So iconoclastic! All at once, it lampoons the legal fiction (yes, this is actually the...
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | May 20, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Have you ever been caught in a lie? Yeah, me neither. I’m the George Washington of Jesuits. Hard as it may be for honest folks like us to believe, there are some people who are not always truthful. TJP’s own Tim O’Brien, SJ has highlighted one way of handling tough...
