Jason Brauninger, SJ, is a nurse who works in the Trauma Center at a Denver hospital.  It's a place where you hear announcements like “Pediatric Code Blue.  Emergency Room.  Five minutes by ground” -- "probably the worst words that...

Meredith,I'm inspired by your passionate interest in social media, and I'm looking forward to learning about it.  We'll be doing this blog-alogue periodically over the next month or two.  Let's get started.So -- I think I'm a web savvy...

About a year ago, Meredith Gould wrote a post here called "Christ Has No Online Presence But Yours."  The title played off St. Theresa of Avila's famous prayer "Christ Has No Body but Yours."  Her point: just as Christ...

I cannot help but smile as I remember a conversation I had with Abby on the way home from preschool the other day. Me: What did you learn about in chapel today? Abby: The fruits of the spirit. Me: Really? What are...

What are you doing for Lent? Am I the first to ask?  Ash Wednesday is only two weeks from today--a date I've been keenly aware of because I've been very busy lately putting together our Ignatian Prayer Adventure.  This is...

I was walking through the parking lot at work this week, getting to campus early to catch up on a few things. I zipped in and parked at the far end of the lot to get a little exercise...

If you like to read novels about priests, Doris Donnelly of John Carroll University has six suggestions. My book group has read four of the six in recent years.  I'd say (and I think my fellow readers in the group ...

Sunday is the anniversary of the death of Pedro Arrupe, SJ, superior general of the Jesuits from 1965-83.  He was a charismatic man who led the Jesuits through a difficult time of transition.  After he suffered a debilitating stroke...

Late last year, Xavier University in Cincinnati unveiled a new statue of its patron, St. Francis Xavier. The sculptor, Tom Tsuchiya, worked on it for a year. In this video he talks about how he worked and where he...

Some years ago I saw a manuscript in the British Library that is thought to have been written by Shakespeare himself in his own hand. I was amazed and moved. His art is unfathomable, yet here it was in ordinary ink...