by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Feb 6, 2012 | Site News ~ Approx. 2min
If for some reason you happened to be visiting TJP late on Sunday evening after the Super Bowl (and if so, we’re glad that we’re fascinating enough to beat out whatever NBC aired after the game), you might have seen our “please come back soon;...
by The Jesuit Post | Feb 6, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1 min
Well, the Superbowl has come and gone, but TJP is back for another week. Congratulations to the New Yorkers among us, and condolences to the New Englanders. When you’ve finished rewatching the commericials from the big game, you can restore your IQ to its normal...
by Peter Folan, SJ | Feb 6, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 6 mins
St. Ignatius Loyola must have loved this year’s Super Bowl. The commercials were decent (and, in the case of this commercial beyond decent); Madonna rocked; and the game came down to the very last play. Actually, I am convinced that Ignatius is actually a fan of the...
by Joe Hoover, SJ | Feb 6, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 10 mins
When I think of the Occupy movement, I sometimes think about a tall young man with long distressed hair and a thick earnest beard who stood silently alone amidst immobilized 18-wheelers and five thousand unemployed workers, students, union members, mothers with small...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Feb 5, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2 mins
I worry more than I exercise. This is not good for my health. Once, on a silent retreat, my spiritual director suggested that I pray about God’s constant struggling effort in creation. Well, in my world (let’s be clear, this is the world of the fat kid) nothing...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Feb 5, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Remember Manners 101? In case you’ve forgotten, it was probably the first course you ever took. And it went something like this: after giving you something, an afternoon snack or whatever, your parent or sibling or teacher would also give a test, something like a...
by Paddy Gilger, SJ | Feb 3, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
As every Dylan fan knows, or will fully pretend to know if they didn’t already and you call them out on it, there would have been no Dylan without Woody Guthrie. In fact, the better of the two original songs that Dylan wrote for his eponymous debut album was called...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Feb 3, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 3 mins
I was not a happy camper. Seven months ago many of my brother Jesuits – men with whom I had entered the Society – were headed off to spend half the summer together learning to teach in northern California. But not me. Instead, I left behind my friends and community,...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Feb 2, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2min
They looked at me like a nut-job when I said it. But I was dead serious: “Oh, you can refill a tube of toothpaste,” I said with a strange confidence. “Yup, that’s right; I do it all the time.” I was talking in a stairwell with two fellow Jesuits. We travel a lot, and...
by Perry Petrich, SJ | Feb 2, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
Listening to Otis Redding will make you a better lover. How, you ask? Take Otis’s gem ‘Try A Little Tenderness.’ This song has a mysterious power to it: it not only talks about tenderness; it is tenderness; it drives you to be tender. In Catholic theological lingo,...
