by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Jun 22, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Warning: I am about to link to a song that has a higher-than-average ability to tunnel into your brain for the next 48 hours: Over at The Awl, Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston, a self-described “lapsed Catholic,” sought to find out just what the sound of silence actually is....
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Jun 21, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 4 mins
Author’s Note: Belizean Kriol, a relative of Caribbean English Creole, is a composite language that makes use of English vocabulary and West African grammatical form and pronunciation. I attempt to recreate its phonetic effect in this piece. The title, “Inna Dat...
by Matthew Dunch, SJ | Jun 20, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
The history of the Society of Jesus can teach us many things, but one of its repeated lessons is that Jesuits are quite good at getting kicked out of places—and quite often for doing the right thing. Just this week, NPR covered the story of Father Paolo...
by Matt Spotts, SJ | Jun 18, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
I recently put in some hours re-reading one of my all time favorite books. The book, Brideshead Revisited, belongs to that exclusive club of books that I read over and over again. Brideshead in particular is a book that, no matter how many times I read it, still...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Jun 18, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Has anybody ever told you that? And have you, like me, ever thought it sounded just a little hollow? “Everything will be fine,“ I hear, “cause there’s some invisible, Divine guy whose love makes everything okay!” Slim comfort. At best, it can sound like a cop out from...
by John Shea, SJ | Jun 18, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
If cleanliness is next to godliness, then parasitologists are literally in some deep $h!t …especially if one adheres to the textbook definition of parasitologist as a person who sits on one stool while examining another stool.1 Let’s face it; the topic of parasites...
by The Jesuit Post | Jun 18, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1 min
This week, Joe Simmons makes good on his promised Part 2 of reflections on evil. (Joe, how do you know so much about evil? Oh, right: teaching high school.) By the way, Joe and TJP also got featured in Marquette’s alumni magazine — so hello to our new MU...
by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Jun 15, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
The new kind of skeptics want the faith to be cut down to the size of their doubt, to conform to their suspicions. Doubt is taken to be sufficient warrant for jettisoning what occasions our disbelief and discomfort, cutting a scandalizing God down to the size of our...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Jun 14, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 5 mins
Editor’s Note: if you missed part 1 of Joe’s reflections on evil, you can read it by clicking here. Teaching high school sophomores some basic points of morality can be challenging. Especially when it requires some self-reflection on their part. ...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Jun 11, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 4 mins
There are days when giving up on God seems like a reasonable option, days when you wonder where to find hope in a world that seems destined only for conflict and division. There are moments when weariness threatens to win the day, moments when tenderness seems a...
