by Matt Spotts, SJ | Dec 14, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2min
Damn this. God, damn this. Damn this to hell. Damn the fact that the news site in front of me says that 20 children have been shot to death. Damn the fact that I can’t decide whether my heart would be more broken if it was 21. Damn the fact that I even have to...
by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Dec 14, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
This afternoon, the news began to break about the horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. And before we even knew how many had been shot or the identity of the shooter or anything else except that senseless violence had again been visited on innocent victims...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Dec 14, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Frank Barsalona 1938 to three weeks ago Thursday Remember this? Franky brought it to you. Mr. Barsalona planned the Beatles’s 1964 tour through the US of A. The Rolling Stones followed. Then Hendrix. The list goes on. Frank leaves behind rock and roll in the...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Dec 13, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2min
I loved coming home with the new tree on some weekend not long after Thanksgiving. Unwieldy pine boughs would scrape the doorframe as we pulled the cold mass into the house. Falling needles and cold air accompanied our new treasure through the front door. And then...
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | Dec 12, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Our friends at Grantland have called NFL coaches to restore sartorial sanity to the sidelines. Wesley Morris laments how NFL coaches dress these days in “Sportstorialist: The NFL Coach Style Disaster,” arguing that the decline in football coaches’ dress is rooted in...
by Quang Tran, SJ | Dec 11, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 3 mins
When I heard that Pope Benedict XVI opened a Twitter account my first thought was not positive. In fact it was more panic than prayer: What are you thinking, Holy Father?! The wolves on Twitter will rip you apart! Sometimes fears are well founded. Before a creature...
by Brian Konzman, SJ | Dec 10, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
AMC’s The Walking Dead is perhaps the best television on air today. Now, some of the high and toity might make the case for Downton Abbey, and admittedly my hometown’s penchant for bears, beets, and Battlestar Galactica might make one suspicious of my judgment, but...
by Nathaniel Romano, SJ | Dec 10, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 10 mins
Perhaps the most terrifying part of doing legal work is how banal it can seem. This thought struck me as I sat in a nondescript chair at a nondescript desk in a nondescript cubicle behind an unremarkable office façade and listened to a heart wrenching story. Across...
by Joe Hoover, SJ | Dec 7, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
About a month ago, in the hubbub surrounding the release of “Lincoln”, Charles McGrath of the New York Times wrote about an actor, Daniel Day-Lewis, and his embodiment of our 16th president. He said: Mr. Day-Lewis, who has a deep voice and a British...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Dec 7, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Dave Brubeck 1920 to Wednesday Brubeck always dreamed of being a rancher. Instead he gave birth to the “West Coast Cool sound that characterised American jazz throughout the 1950s and ’60s.” A convert to Roman Catholicism, Brubeck composed a mass entitled To...
