by The Jesuit Post | Mar 29, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
All eyes have been on the Supreme Court this week because Obamacare is on trial. After three days of hearings many Republicans are predicting that the individual mandate is a dead man walking. And it doesn’t seem like Susan Sarandon will make a very convincing Don...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Mar 29, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2min
Editor’s Note: In gratitude for the responses to his last piece “Meant to Be”, Brendan offers this as a follow up. *** I marvel at the life I live now. There is no way that I could have imagined this. I am happier today as a Jesuit than I have ever...
by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Mar 28, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
How long is the gap between knowing that you’re wrong and saying so out loud? Between defensive pride and painful honesty? It may only be ten seconds, but it feels like an eternity. Two weekends ago, NPR’s This American Life ran an episode called...
by Paul Lickteig, SJ | Mar 28, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
Back in the day, way, way back in the early ’90s, my friends and I would go to this “all ages” night at First Avenue, a club in MSP made famous by Prince in “Purple Rain.”1. Evenings generally consisted of standing in the shadows trying to look vaguely...
by Matt Spotts, SJ | Mar 28, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
Over spring break a few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to accompany one of Saint Louis University’s outreach trips as the faculty facilitator. The group, ten students and myself, traveled to the small town of Kermit, West Virginia. The town, not much more than a...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Mar 27, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
It’s springtime. And John Steinbeck has some advice: First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing. Just in time for the season, a dear friend passed along to me Steinbeck’s beautiful letter on love. He’s responding to a letter in which his oldest son...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Mar 26, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
I have a fair amount of cloying, vapid pop on my iPod, and I’m not ashamed of it. Most of the time. I like trashy pop because the stuff demands little of me. Often enough, I don’t even notice the lyrics. I’ll hum or sing along mindlessly, without paying mind to what’s...
by Michael C. McCarthy, SJ | Mar 26, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 6 mins
People lose their faith in college. Or so Senator Rick Santorum believes if his bold and intemperate statements of a few of weeks ago are taken at face value. As (yet another) Jesuit with too many degrees and who teaches at one of these colleges so maligned by Mr....
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Mar 26, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 4 mins
You may have heard the story about the rabbi and his young son. The boy liked to wander in the woods every day when he got home from school. At first, the rabbi let him wander, but over time he grew concerned. The woods were dangerous and the father did not know what...
by Jeff Johnson, SJ | Mar 26, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
Perhaps I live a sheltered life, but only recently did I meet for the first time a holocaust denier. At a wedding reception I sat next to an octogenarian relative of the groom. He was charming in the best sense of the word, gentlemanly in the gentlest of ways. His...
