by Perry Petrich, SJ | Sep 6, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
What’s wrong with Taylor Swift? Our all-American tween-country star drops her first #1 single and her fans seem to hate it (one review: “If Taylor Swift wins country music awards this year it will be the biggest insult to country music!”). But why? After all, the...
by Jeff Sullivan, SJ | Sep 5, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
As reported by a multitude of media outlets, including TJP, an 80 year-old woman in Spain recently “restored” the face of Jesus to a cartoonish second-cousin of Magilla Gorilla. Unfortunately, nobody (not even our own Tim O’Brien) seems very interested in...
by Ryan Duns, SJ | Sep 4, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
Next week marks the start my third round of graduate-level education – territory usually only covered by M.D.’s (and Chris Farley in Tommy Boy). While this by no means makes me an expert in educational theory, when combined with some time as a...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Sep 4, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
Triangles aside, French mathematician Blaise Pascal is best known for his Pensées, a collection of pithy thoughts on life, death, and Christianity. Pascal was no fan of the Jesuits, but I enjoy his writing all the same. Consider this gem: “Too much and too little...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Sep 4, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
As our friends over at IgnatianSpirituality.com know well, there are all kinds of jokes about Jesuits. For reasons I’ll explain shortly, I recently thought of the following joke that’s posted over at their site: A Franciscan and a Jesuit were friends. They were both...
by The Jesuit Post | Sep 3, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
It’s easy to feel conflicted about Labor Day. The day off is nice and all, no question. But then again the holiday has a somber tone about it, since it has come to signify the unofficial end of the allegedly endless days of summer. Given that, it’s easy to...
by The Jesuit Post | Sep 2, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 2 mins
Are you following TJP on Facebook yet? If not, then you’ve missed out on our dive into the world of internet memes (see our full catalog here): This meme picked up on a reader’s comment about Quang Tran’s post connecting “Luke, I am your...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Sep 1, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Editor’s Note: This is our feature documenting the week’s dearly departed, which returns this week with its second edition. (Find the first column and its pithy mission statement over yonder). Conspiracy theorists delight! We just saw the passing of three...
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | Aug 31, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
At a young age, I was encouraged to root for Penn State because head football coach Joe Paterno was a paisano. He was one of us, in other words…someone you could trust.1 By all accounts at the time, he ran a tight ship, and though my parents would never let me...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Aug 31, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 4 mins
I was born in the year 1977. A few years after, while I was still a young child, my parents bought a Volkswagen bus of the same vintage. Unlike myself, it came to our family used. And for most of my memory, it was without a middle seat. Originally our VW bus was...
