by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Aug 23, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
In a world full of perplexing questions, one is still pretty simple. Ask someone “does evil exist?” and you can usually expect a pretty rapid answer. Often data from one’s own life experience–betrayal by a friend or loved one, witnessing an act of violence, etc.–will...
by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Aug 23, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
I did not want to write this piece. There’s less danger in wearing a Derek Jeter jersey to Fenway Park on Patriots’ Day than in delving into the question of how faith and Church teaching should inform decisions in the voting booth. I can think of no other topic...
by Quang Tran, SJ | Aug 22, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
For years, Csanad Szegedi was a leader and member of Hungary’s anti-Semitic Jobbik Party. His strongly nationalist views played a part in his rise to prominence, and Jews were among his favored targets. Until recently, that is. In a twist straight out of Star Wars, it...
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...
