by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Nov 26, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
“You are pious and honest people, who cannot do anything but calumniate and lie.” Ouch — that’ll leave a mark. Or an even less veiled insult: “You are idiots and swine.” Want some more? Just click here. A while back, a friend of mine forwarded me the Shakespearean...
by The Jesuit Post | Nov 25, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 4 mins
Happy Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday! (Apparently only Sunday remains temporarily uncolonized by our retailing overlords.) Also, and more hopefully, happy feasts of St. Cecilia (Thursday), St. Clement, St. Columbanus, and Bl....
by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Nov 23, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 3 mins
The TJP Christmas Playlist is live and shareable. Check out the latest additions. My back against the wall, facing a firing squad of my most opinionated pals, I boldly pronounced my last words: “No one should play Christmas songs, neither on the radio, nor on...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Nov 23, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
Busied with holiday revels, yours truly has taken a week off from prayerful consideration of newspaper obituaries. Instead, on this Black Friday, I leave you this to help kick off your holiday-song season. Bing Crosby 1903 to 1,805 weeks ago Friday This...
by Eric Ramirez, SJ | Nov 23, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Burning eyes and injured shoppers filled our half-priced-TV-screens this time last year when reports broke of a woman who pepper-sprayed a crowd of early holiday shoppers at an L.A. Wal-Mart as they competed for half-priced X-Box 360s. Cell phone cameras captured the...
by James Martin, SJ | Nov 22, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 4 mins
Thank you, God. I’m grateful, God, for so many things. Now, I know I’m not the most grateful person you know, God, so let me take some time to tell you what I’m thankful for. I’m grateful, God, for the gift of life. Without you I wouldn’t be here. Without you nothing...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Nov 22, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
Since my early childhood I have marveled at spider webs. A spider silently weaves and bobs in her little corner of the universe to create a web. I’d find them in our old house, or in the forest behind grandma’s house. Playing the less-than-benevolent child-god, I...
by Quang Tran, SJ | Nov 21, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
All the way from the Vietnamese village in New Orleans East – officially known as the Village de l’Est – is TJP’s own Quang Tran, with a homespun eulogy for… The Twinkie.1 Take us down to The Crescent City, Quang. Cover photo by shaggyshoo at Flickr Blues guitar by...
by The Jesuit Post | Nov 21, 2012 | MAG+S & WYD ~ Approx. 1 min
If you were going to get a bunch of young people together which city would you choose? Cleveland! Obviously we’re kidding! (Although we’ve heard that the kids just love those flammable rivers)1. But if you can’t get to Cleveland, why not head to...
by Quang Tran, SJ | Nov 21, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
It’s not clear if Justin Bieber – the singer of “Never Let You Go” and “Boyfriend” – actually “let” Selena Gomez “go.” Some sources say it was likely the other way around. What is clear is that the Biebs and Sel are no longer together, and like any...
