by Christian Verghese | May 17, 2022 | Justice, The Jesuits, TJP Reads ~ Approx. 6 mins
Amid the continued barrage of images from the Ruso-Ukrainian conflict, you may have encountered harrowing footage of tattooed Salvadoran prisoners stripped down to their underwear and stacked against each other in jail yards throughout the country. In April, El...
by Daniel Mascarenhas, SJ | Apr 22, 2022 | Creation, Current Events, Justice, Topics ~ Approx. 4 mins
On a hot summer afternoon, a brother Jesuit and I heaved one last bag full of clothes into the back of our minivan to make our annual donation to the local Goodwill. As I drove the minivan loaded with bags and boxes full of clothes, shoes, suitcases, and household...
by Patrick Hyland, SJ | Apr 15, 2022 | Film, Justice, The Jesuits ~ Approx. 4 mins
“But man does not drive to be free for himself and content with himself.”1 According to Jürgen Multmann in The Crucified God, Psalm 18, verse 36 is not often understood. He says it should read,“You show me that you are great by your humiliation of yourself” because,...
by Patrick Hyland, SJ | Apr 1, 2022 | Ignatian Year, Jesuit 101, The Jesuits ~ Approx. 6 mins
There may be no Ignatian term that is more misused than the word magis. Indeed, it is Latin and it does mean “more,” but that hardly gets to the Ignatian meaning of the term. That is because magis does not necessarily nor simply mean more. In fact, it often means...
by Eric Immel, SJ | Mar 30, 2022 | Jesuit 101, Series, Spirituality ~ Approx. 5 mins
I’ve never read a word of Richard Carlson’s viral self-help series, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s All Small Stuff, so let me be clear at the onset – I am not taking issue with the notion that life might be best spent learning how to discern what’s worth...