by Joe Simmons, SJ | Aug 21, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 4 mins
As the story goes, three companions met in college in the most cosmopolitan city in the known world. There they decided to come together, giving up the usual trappings of success. Not content with the pursuit of career, family, or fortune, they pooled their resources...
by Michael Rozier, SJ | Aug 20, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
I stumbled alongside the foundation of a building, my toes occasionally clipping a fallen brick and my mind tripping over just about everything else. I couldn’t quite figure out where I ought to look. The heavens might have seemed like a natural place, but here they...
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | Aug 20, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Man, do I love being a man. I think cars ought to be fast, music loud, and muscles big. A movie with no explosions is one to forget. I grunt like Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor and agree with Homer J. Simpson that good things end in “-teria” and “-mania.” Super Bowl Sunday...
by Jayme Stayer, SJ | Aug 16, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 10 mins
I. When I was a graduate student, I lived in a dodgy neighborhood where gunfire was not uncommon. A few houses on my street were abandoned or unoccupied, and my own crumbling duplex had recently been a house of prostitution (or so I was told) before a slumlord...
by Matthew Dunch, SJ | Aug 14, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Ok … so, yeah that all sounds great … right, good … well, you know I really should be going … okay, good … well, bye … okay, talk to you soon … goodbye … — me, attempting to end a phone call I don’t like most phone calls — because many of them have no natural end or...
by Mario Powell, SJ | Aug 12, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 9 mins
“If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” It will come as no surprise that these words, belonging as they do to President Barack Obama, are shaped by elaborate rhetorical flourishes.1 Flourishes aside, however, those words...
by The Jesuit Post | Aug 12, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1 min
These last weeks of the summer are the season of slowing down for Jesuits — time for summer vacation (“villa,” in Jesuit-ese) and for annual eight-day retreats. Brendan Busse explains why he’s going to fall off the map of social media for more than a...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Aug 9, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
You won’t hear from me for a while. And I won’t hear from you. I won’t answer my phone. I won’t listen to your voicemails. I won’t read emails or text messages or status updates or tweets or… well… just about anything (and, yes, writing this now I’m amazed I ever...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Aug 7, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
In October of 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was first displayed on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Conceived as a way for friends and families to remember loved ones lost to the disease, the original quilt contained just under two thousand individual panels, each...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Aug 6, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
I’m pretty sure I saw a miracle in church. A few weeks back, as I sat in my pew before mass, I overheard an older woman, her hand resting in her husband’s lap, whisper to no one in particular, “Today is our 65th wedding anniversary.” I gazed at them in wonder. I...
