by Eric Sundrup, SJ | Jun 27, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Editors Note: This is the 1st installment of our new summer series, Journey Moments. To learn more about the series and the stories we will be sharing throughout the summer please check out Journey Moments: An Introduction. Every Tuesday at 8:30 PM “Night Cap, Call...
by Ryan Duns, SJ | Jun 25, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
Author’s note: This past week, I served as one of five adult leaders for a Kairos retreat. One student remarked early on that his own uncertainty about God made talking about faith very difficult. This is hardly surprising. If we can’t establish the credibility of...
by Vinny Marchionni, SJ | Jun 25, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
As a third-grader during the 1994-95 school year, I received a snapback hat (or, as we used to call it, a “one size-fits-all”). But this wasn’t any snapback. It was the currently uber-popular, electric teal-and-purple Charlotte Hornets snapback, to be precise. It did...
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...
