by Matt Spotts, SJ | Mar 5, 2013 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
Who taught you to go deep? Who dared you to crack open the secret vaults of your heart? Who stood by as you crept hesitatingly into the silence? Who showed you the way? *** My own responses are no less treasured for being expected: my parents, who without fanfare...
by Michael Rossmann, SJ | Mar 4, 2013 | Papal Election ~ Approx. 4 mins
“Mr. Rossmann, why are most saints white?” “Why has there never been a black pope?” “Was Jesus white?” “Was Jesus black?” I teach sophomore religion here at Loyola High in Dar es Salaam. And while the inquisitiveness of 16-year-olds is probably universal, some of...
by Mario Powell, SJ | Mar 4, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 3 mins
George Will, the erudite Washington Post commentator, wrote a piercing essay regarding the 10th anniversary of 9/11 saying “I would say that my life has been affected far more by the U.S. response to 9/11 than by 9/11 itself. It’s like the rule with earthquakes....
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Mar 1, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Cleotha Staples 1934 to last Friday Cleedi – who sang minor tenor in the Staples Family Singers – wanted to take you there. And so did Martin Luther King who brought her family around with him on tour. She leaves behind the group’s message of tolerance epitomized in...
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | Feb 28, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
That’s right folks, it’s Throwback Thursday. And I confess that the 2013 Academy Awards didn’t do much for me this year. I was pleasantly surprised that “Argo” beat out “Lincoln” for Best Picture, showing that Ben Affleck has great directing chops (go see...
by Quang Tran, SJ | Feb 28, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Back in 2010, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public life took a survey on the average American’s knowledge of major religions. Guess what? Atheists and agnostics outscored all others. American Catholics scored below average, and almost half did not know that the bread...
by Pau Vidal, SJ | Feb 28, 2013 | Papal Election ~ Approx. 5 mins
Monday 11, February 2013. Benedict XVI takes a bold move and announces that he will be resigning from the office of bishop of Rome. The Catholic world gasps. According to his explanation on that day, the pope wants to give way to somebody younger and thus more able...
by Peter Folan, SJ | Feb 27, 2013 | Papal Election ~ Approx. 1 min
If you have already grown tired of the seemingly endless speculation over who is and who isn’t papabile – a likely candidate to become pope – consider enacting a self-imposed media blackout for the next two weeks or so. Things are about to...
by Nathaniel Romano, SJ | Feb 27, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
If you pay any attention at all to politics, you are likely to have heard some ominous-sounding discussion about the “sequester.” A good number if political and economic energy is being expended these days to either stop it, or to learn how to deal with it....
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Feb 26, 2013 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
John Donne is perhaps best known for tormenting high school students everywhere. I’m willing to bet that many of you remember reading and analyzing, under threat of a poor grade, Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.” Or, if you don’t remember it, I’ll still...
