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L.A. Plague Squirrel and Cultural Memory
So the Black Death hit SoCal. Sort of. Stock footage of squirrel Over the last few weeks, media outlets worldwide have reported that parts of the Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County were...
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Atheist Admires Pope Francis. So What?
It’s not uncommon for my various social newsfeeds to look like an avalanche of news about Pope Francis; it’s an occupational hazard of (i) being a Jesuit and (ii) knowing a lot of Catholics. However,...
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Tip of the hat goes to: Matt Spotts’s philosophy class at Brebeuf Jesuit, Indianapolis as well as Brian Konzman’s students on the Gonzaga College High School, Washington D.C. Cross Country Team...
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The Rhetoric of Joy: Why Pope Francis is Hearable
The Beginning of Joy Somewhere during the second year of a (reasonably successful) collegiate debate career, a teammate offered me the kind of blunt feedback that I still treasure out of that...
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In Flanders Fields
Hackness War Memorial | Flickr User B | Flickr Creative Commons “The lamps are going out all over Europe. They will not be lit again in our lifetime.” Sir Edmund Grey, the British foreign secretary...
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La retórica de la alegría: por qué se escucha al Papa Francisco
El comienzo de la alegría Originalmente en Inglés, traducido por Manuel Carrasco García-Moreno En algún momento del segundo año de mi (razonablemente exitosa) carrera en el grupo universitario de...
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Los ateos admiran al papa Francisco. ¿Y qué?
Originalmente en Inglés, traducido por Manuel Carrasco García-Moreno No es raro que mis redes sociales sean algo parecido a una avalancha de noticias sobre el papa Francisco: es un gaje del oficio que...
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The Way Women Talk?
As a high school history, philosophy, and religion teacher, I spend a significant amount of my time irritating my students by nitpicking at their writing and speaking style: Avoid the passive voice!...
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Editor’s note: This post was first published at America (TJP’s publisher). Paddy Gilger, S.J., a founding editor at TJP and currently America’s contributing editor for culture and Matt Spotts, S.J., a...
View ArticleWhat we wish Trump’s Tomahawks could do for us
Warning: this article contains images that readers may find distressing The thing about the U.S. missile strikes on Syria yesterday is that we don’t seem to know what we want them to be. The strikes...
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