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If I Were A Boy: Beyonce, Jesus, and I
This post by Eric Immel, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. I recently stumbled upon the Beyoncélogues. These videos are the brainchild of actress Nina Millin and they deserve a million views on...
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Before You Know It: Learning to Love
This post by Brendan Busse, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. My memory stinks. It’s incredible how little content I actually remember from my own schooling. As a teacher this both frustrated me...
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On Love and Dignity and Dying
This post by Jason Welle, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. Maybe by now you’ve heard the story of the California woman who shortly after her 29th birthday learned that she had brain cancer....
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Born in Love: On Advent and Adoption
This post by Eric Immel, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. There’s a book for everything. Everyone Poops is a seminal tale that comforts children when they start to realize that their bodies...
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Pope Francis’ Ecology Encyclical: What Can We Expect?
This post by Henry Longbottom, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. The word emanating from Vatican corridors is that we can expect to see the long awaited environment-themed encyclical at some...
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How Long? Not Long: Our Need of Rest and Renewal
This post by Brendan Busse, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. At the end of the 5-day march from Selma to Montgomery, Martin Luther King, Jr. noted that “the arc of the moral universe is long,...
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No SNAP for You!
This post by Nathaniel Romano, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. Seinfeld, once the anchor of NBC’s “Must-See TV,” gave us many memorable characters, including the so-called “Soup Nazi.” A...
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Invisible Things
This post by Brendan Busse, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. I held the mic. That’s about it. I had been asked to serve as an acolyte for the diaconate ordination of eight Jesuits here in...
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Six Things to Know About Pope Francis’ Upcoming Encyclical
This post by Henry Longbottom, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. A thinly veiled piece of climate alarmist propaganda. A groundbreaking exposition of Catholic ecological thinking. Well...
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Eat, Pray, Doubt: Temptation and the Call to Love
This post by Eric Immel, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. I do, at times, consider leaving the Society of Jesus. Like when I hear a baby cry right at the end of the Eucharistic prayer, or unlock...
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Shopping Our Way to a Brighter Future?
This post by Ken Homan, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. Have you seen the new piece from Huffington Post Highline, The Myth of the Ethical Shopper? It’s a pretty fierce condemnation of the way...
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Prada or Nada?: 3 Simple Fashion Tips from Pope Francis
This post by Henry Longbottom, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. A few weeks back, we heard of Papa Francesco’s escape from the confines of Vatican City to pay a visit to — of all places — his...
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Newborn: Prayers Answered
This post by Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. I don’t think I ever prayed for anything as regularly or as fervently. Since last Christmas, when my sister told us she and her...
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5 Ways Gratitude Can Change American Politics
This post by Bill McCormick, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. Donald Trump. Income inequality. Government shutdowns. School shootings. The refugee crisis. Immigration reform. Declining wages....
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Rethinking Chill
This post by Eric Immel, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. “Will you go out with me?” It’s a terrifying question once awkwardly muttered by romantically untried youths everywhere. No longer. I...
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10 Ways to Make Meaningful Connections in the Digital Age
Smartphones are supposedly ruining our lives and making us incapable of having real conversations. But phones, like other modern means of communication, are tools. We can surely misuse them, but we can...
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The Mystery in the Mundane
In Madrid we live in apartment flats (pisos) and our house chapel is a converted bedroom – a rather small bedroom. For our community of fifteen fully grown Jesuits, it can be a tight fit. The space is...
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Prayer During Tragedy
Events in our national life are often sadly familiar. That is certainly true of the Orlando shootings this past weekend. Mass violence. Contentious claims about Islam and domestic terrorism. The nation...
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Real Parents
You’re not my real parents. I said that to them at least once in my life. I followed the comment by running away from home, a slammed door followed by a short jaunt down Lola Drive with my blankee tied...
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The Wounded Church: Pro-Life and Social Justice Catholics Remain Divided
If there has been one overused line in the past few weeks, it’s the trope: “The election taught us…” We didn’t need this election to teach us that our country is polarized or that there is no “Catholic...
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