by Paddy Gilger, SJ | Jan 24, 2012 | About TJP, Site News, Uncategorized ~ Approx. 2 mins
Kevin Garnett, Jesus, Bob Dylan and Descartes. Really? I squinted to get a better look at the young guy standing in front of me. It sure seemed like he was wearing a black shirt and a white plastic collar. And it sure seemed like he had just tied these four men...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Jan 22, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
Confession: the hit British costume drama Downton Abbey was my guiltiest pleasure of 2011, a distinction poised to continue in 2012 as well. The show has been all over the news in the last few weeks, in the runup to and aftermath of its season two premier on PBS....
by James T. Keane | Jan 22, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
I have a theory. I consider it impossible to read for more than twenty minutes in the academic fields of American literature or Catholic theology without encountering a quote from Flannery O’Connor. Go ahead, try it — pick a book or article from the last 15 years in...
by Jeff Johnson, SJ | Jan 22, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 7 mins
Poetic Diction and the New Translation of the Roman Missal I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine. – Marianne Moore, “Poetry” Poets do not like words. Oh, sure, once the words...
by Michael Rozier, SJ | Jan 22, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 8 mins
It’s not the economy, stupid. I know most of the pundits say that the November election will pivot on the state of the economy. But their I-can-only-see-the-story-right-in-front-of-me groupthink forgets what is coming this summer. The dominant issue of the 2012...
