Everyone wants a short homily on Super Bowl Sunday. Here's yours! Enjoy this brief, but powerful homily from Brian Strassburger, SJ. Based on the readings for Sunday, February 4, which you can find here: http://bit.ly/2DKu37B.
Unstoppable Grace: Sacraments and Sinful Ministers
Reflecting on his current studies in theology, Josh reflects on how a hundreds-year-old debate on the sacraments touched his own life and brought him healing.
Atomic Pilgrim: A Book Review
In his forthcoming memoir Atomic Pilgrim, James Patrick Thomas recounts his cross-continental pilgrimage from Washington State to the Holy Land and his later activism back home. Writing for The Jesuit Post, Luke Lapean, SJ reflects on how the memoir provocatively asks whether true success in the struggle for change lies in measurable outcomes or in the quiet, interior transformation of the one who walks the road.
Our Political Idols: Why We Mislabel the Popes (and Ourselves)
Media narratives try to force Pope Leo XIV into political boxes that no pope can check. Alex Hale, SJ warns that politics now replaces religion in shaping American identity and calls Catholics to rise above division in pursuit of unity.
Mike Merrill: The Corporate Man
TJP blue chip contributor Chris Schroeder looks at a man who sells shares in a very peculiar kind of corporation: himself.
Lying to Jimmy Kimmel
Ever been caught in a lie? On national TV? Vinny Marchionni has a reminder on why honesty is the best policy.
Help Us Find the Next 10,000 TJP Readers
10,000 Likes, but who’s counting. Oh wait, we are… but it’s for a good purpose, we swear!
America’s Rana Plaza – #tbt
In light of the recent garment factory disaster in Bangladesh, Vinny Marchionni recalls a similar chapter in American history.
It Happens: On Spring and Other Stuff
We confuse ourselves into thinking that we make the world go ‘round, and in this confusion we run ourselves into the ground while life springs forth without our doing anything at all. It just happens.
The Man (and Woman) in the Mirror
Paul Lickteig stumbles upon a series of photos that shines light on its subjects – and on each of us.