by Ryan Birjoo, SJ | Jan 24, 2020 | Art, Film, Gender, Pop Culture, Topics ~ Approx. 3 mins
Love. Betrayal. Forgiveness. Death. These themes occur in Greta Gerwig’s recent adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Moving between past and present, Gerwig shows us the joys and struggles of four sisters as they navigate adolescence and adulthood. Raised...
by Tim O'Brien, SJ | Mar 20, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1min
For my (admittedly scarce) money, Marilynne Robinson is the best American religious author alive today. Period. Along with her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead, Robinson is also a prolific essayist on matters religious (her “Psalm Eight” from The Death of Adam is...
by Joe Hoover, SJ | Jan 23, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 11 mins
Mass in the side chapels of urban parishes tends to draw pretty much the same crowd. A thin somber college student wearing outdated clothing, and not ironically, walks into the nave and kneels perfectly before sliding into the pew. Later in the communion line he will...
by Jake Martin, SJ | Jan 22, 2012 | Uncategorized ~ Approx. 1 min
Here’s a link to a speech by hipster icon (at least this aging hipster’s icon), and gosh-darn-pretty-good-gosh-darn writer David Foster Wallace. Those of us with an Ignatian bent may well see something in the speech that laterally addresses Ignatius’ Two Standards...
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...
