by Danny Gustafson, SJ | Jan 15, 2021 | Current Events, Faith & Politics, In the News, Justice ~ Approx. 3 mins
January of 2008 and January of 2021 found me focused on the same building, but at profoundly different points in my life and for profoundly different reasons. In January of 2008, I had just acquired my Congressional ID badge. As a freshman at Georgetown University, I...
by Erin Kast, SJ | Sep 3, 2020 | Current Events, Faith & Politics, In the News, Justice, Spirituality ~ Approx. 4 mins
Last Saturday, August 29th, marked the feast of the beheading of St. John the Baptizer, the last and greatest of all scriptural prophets. The words from the book of the prophet Jeremiah which coincided in the Divine Office with St. John’s feast could not have been...
by Ian Peoples, SJ | Jul 5, 2019 | Faith & Politics, Global Catholicism, In the News, Pop Culture, Sports ~ Approx. 4 mins
As the USWNT marches into the World Cup Final this weekend, the team’s star forward and co-captain Megan Rapinoe has filled headlines with her back-and-forth exchanges with President Trump, turning attention away from the team’s on-the-field victories to...
by David Inczauskis, SJ | Jan 9, 2019 | Immigration ~ Approx. 4 mins
About 15,000 more Hondurans are preparing to leave San Pedro Sula in a migrant caravan on January 15, 2019. Like others before them, they will journey through Guatemala and Mexico to the US border. I recently sat down to discuss the phenomenon with Iolany Pérez, the...
by Jason Downer, SJ | Jan 24, 2017 | Justice, Pop Culture, TV ~ Approx. 3 mins
For us, this show’s going from weird to downright disturbing. Watching a megalomaniac impervious to counsel tear apart an institution that we love is a bit too much for us to take at the moment. That in mind, here are the things that stuck with us, starting with the...
