by The Jesuit Post | Dec 19, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 3 mins
A teacher in my high school made a point of showing the movie Rudy every semester. And, every semester, when Rudy was told that he was not good enough for Notre Dame students would hear, every semester, muffled sobs from the back of the classroom. Every single time...
by Quang Tran, SJ | Dec 17, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Nineteen year old Angus T. Jones from the sitcom “Two and a Half Men” officially joined the Seventh-Day Adventist Church this past June and dissed the sitcom in a testimony and interview that just aired on November 30. He pleaded, “If you watch ‘Two and a Half Men,’...
by Joe Hoover, SJ | Dec 17, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 5 mins
In the end we didn’t get our game. There was condensation on the hardwood floor they had laid down on that aircraft carrier. Military personnel were trying to wipe it off and it kept coming. Too hot down there in the waters of Charleston Harbor on that early November...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Dec 15, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
If you’re thinking about going to see “The Hobbit,” released this last weekend, TJP’s Matt Stewart has some advice for you: go. In a review published yesterday by America Magazine, Stewart relates his positive reaction (Well…mostly positive. It is a review after...
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...
