by Joe Simmons, SJ | Feb 14, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 4 mins
My mind has forgotten, or blissfully blocked, the sarcastic comment that prompted her words. I may never recall what I said to her, but I sure remember my sister’s response. It cut like a knife: “And you’re studying to be a priest?” *** All Jesuit novices undergo a...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Feb 13, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2min
“The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach,” though I don’t know why this bit of wisdom would be restricted to men only. But I do know that an article in last Wednesday’s New York Times left me wondering if one way to God’s heart might pass through our stomachs....
by Sam Sawyer, SJ | Feb 13, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
John Shea confessed his Doctor Who fandom, so I’ll meet him and match him geek-for-geek with Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. I’ve read it and reread it many times over the years. No doubt some people will roll their eyes at that, dismissing the...
by The Jesuit Post | Feb 13, 2012 | Week in Review ~ Approx. 1min
At the beginning of last week we did some redecorating while everyone was passed out on the couch after the Superbowl. Then Peter Folan told us that the Superbowl wasn’t just a rematch, but, in Ignatian terms, it was a repetition — a creative reception of the...
by James T. Keane | Feb 12, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
Everyone named Jim Keane is a bumbling ne’er-do-well. You may have examples to the contrary, but I have known them all already, known them all: the Jim Keane in Finland who stole his brother’s plumbing tools; the homonymous wanker in Liverpool who never paid his...
by James Martin, SJ | Feb 12, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 5 mins
I’m an over-the-top “Downton Abbey” fan. Lately I’ve been avoiding all Sunday night engagements (at least those that continue past 9:00 PM ET) and am downcast if I haven’t heard the Dowager Countess’s most recent aperçu. Despite the show’s manifest weaknesses...
by Brendan Busse, SJ | Feb 10, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2 mins
A few months ago two 1500 year-old giant sequoias, twinned at their base, fell in California. While not unheard of, this kind of thing certainly doesn’t happen every day—if it did these trees wouldn’t grow to be as old as they are. Decisions were to be made and since...
by Matthew Dunch, SJ | Feb 9, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
What does science have to do with the meaning of life? Adam Frank of NPR’s Science and Culture Blog, titled “13.7” after the best estimates of the universe’s age in billions of years, recently took a stab at this question (you can read the whole piece by...
by Joe Simmons, SJ | Feb 9, 2012 | Blogs ~ Approx. 2min
I still remember memorizing the Our Father as a child in Sunday school. Whenever I’m on a bumpy plane ride, that familiar prayer of my youth comes to me sooner than any comforting words I could assemble on my own. When it comes down to it, I remember best what...
by James Martin, SJ | Feb 8, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 6 mins
Unlike most of the guys who write for The Jesuit Post, I’m not exactly a “young Jesuit.” I’m 51. (On the other hand, these days anyone under 90 could be considered “young” in a religious order.) But even though I may not know as much about the latest music (read:...
