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...
by Chris Schroeder, SJ | Aug 6, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 5 mins
Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy peaked too early.1 The Dark Knight Rises, the conclusion of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, opened last weekend after much anticipation.2 His previous chapter, The Dark Knight, was a tough, maybe even impossible, act to...
by The Jesuit Post | Aug 5, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 2 mins
Good and evil, light and dark, Missy Franklin and the Sikh Temple shooting. Given that this dyad is so tangled up in the world we share maybe we shouldn’t feel so stunned to find them tangled up in what we’ve written about here at TJP during the past...
by Matthew Dunch, SJ | Aug 3, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Recently I passed through London, and made my way to Westminster Abbey for Evensong. En route to my seat, I passed many special people (or at least their remains): Isaac Newton, Edward Elgar, Charles Darwin, and Alfred Lord Tennyson–to name just a few. One of the...
by Matt Spotts, SJ | Aug 3, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
July 21, 2012. 11:30AM Eastern Standard Time Having just completed a morning of offering spiritual direction to 8-day retreatants, it was time to get my morning internet fix. Alright, it was time to check Facebook. What I didn’t know, what I couldn’t have known, was...
by Joe Hoover, SJ | Aug 2, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 9 mins
Editor’s Note: the first half of “Briggs” can be read here. *** -Really? It’s not to feel good? Well then, Hoover, what is the purpose of life? -Well… that’s a very fine question. I raised up to my full philosophical and pedantic height. My...
by Quang Tran, SJ | Aug 1, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
The world’s foremost Hermit Kingdom, North Korea, recently played host to the Magic Kingdom, as Mickey Mouse and company staged a concert that was broadcast throughout the country. The characters danced and pranced to familiar tunes, including the ‘Rocky’ theme song,...
by Jay Hooks | Jul 31, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Well folks, the Journey Moments saints just keep on marchin’ in. Last week the Catholic Church hailed St. James the Greater, the apostle who gave his name to the Camino de Santiago. July the 31st marks the feast day of another pilgrim – St. Ignatius Loyola. Ignatius...
