by Michael Rossmann, SJ | May 11, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Editor’s Note: Apparently our TJP team gets fired up about basketball… so this article is the second installment of a three part series – You can read the first article here. TJP Editor Paddy Gilger will weigh in on Sunday. Perry, Perry, Perry. I love the fact that...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | May 10, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
Editor’s Note: Apparently our TJP team gets fired up about basketball… so this article is the first installment of a three part series – TJP Contributors Michael Rossmann and Editor Paddy Gilger will counter Perry on Friday and Sunday. Even though I...
by Sam Sawyer, SJ | May 9, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
This is the season in which it’s dangerous to ask graduating college seniors about what they’re doing next year. A few weekends ago, I was back at Loyola University Maryland, and as I saw students I’d taught who were getting ready to take their last...
by Matt Spotts, SJ | May 8, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
My favorite soccer team, London’s Arsenal F.C., limped through the last home game of their season, both literally and figuratively. Key players were out with injuries, and after half an hour, yet another experienced defender departed with a fractured leg. The team...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | May 7, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
“Only connect” was E.M. Forster’s refrain in his novel “Howard’s End.” But is our connectivity, especially online, making us lonely? Recent weeks have seen two prominent articles (and considerable web commentary) addressing why both our loneliness and our digital...
by Michael Rossmann, SJ | May 6, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
This is the story of a viral video.1 A video to which my Mother’s initial response was: “MICHAEL!!! What did you do?!” “Uh oh,” I thought, it always being better not to make Mom angry. …Maybe you’d better take a quick look. Where did it come from, you ask? ...
by The Jesuit Post | May 6, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1 min
Last week, we crossed the 1,000 “Like” mark on our Facebook page (you like us … you really like us!) — a reminder, in case we needed one, that things here at TJP are still just getting started, and there’s more to come. What will it look like? Well,...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | May 4, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
Every abused kid knows what it means to be chosen. Every bullied child, every victim of crime, every silent sufferer has known the pinch of feeling noticed for all the wrong reasons. All the raped, the teased, the beaten, the harassed, they’ve all been chosen. And it...
by Jeff Sullivan, SJ | May 3, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Bobby Petrino’s recent all-too-public sexcapdes have gotten me thinking about, of all things, celibacy! Wait, what? Petrino’s situation isn’t terrifyingly unique; in fact, he’s a cliche. Media outlets have inundated American society with the sexual indiscretions of...
by Matthew Dunch, SJ | May 2, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
It’s term paper time. For the next week, my life will be non-stop grading. I’ll spend hours searching, sometimes in vain, for thesis statements and for that rare and beautiful thing called argument. Okay — I’m being cynical. Some of the papers are actually a pleasure...
