The Only Female Jesuit



From the Jesuit magazine Company



Then came Juana. She wanted, and got, for herself not a separate branch of the Society but membership in the Society itself.



So perilous was the project that all existing Jesuit correspondence about the situation avoids her name, using the pseudonym Mateo Sanchez, or Montoya, instead. In a quandary, Ignatius appointed a committee to advise him. It recommended that Juana enter the Society as a permanent scholastic; truly a Jesuit but forever in formation. Otherwise, with solemn vows, she would have been—according to canon and civil law—legally dead, dispossessed of everything, and incapable of ever marrying again.



With the novel, simple, and terminable vows of a Jesuit scholastic, she could have separated from the Society if necessary. When Juana pronounced her three religious vows as a Jesuit, absolute secrecy was enjoined on everyone.



She could make no obvious change in her manner of life. So, for her, poverty meant leading a rather austere life at her already simple court. Chastity meant never marrying again. Obedience—well, her letters show her sometimes trying to give orders to Ignatius and Borgia.

An Excellent Review of Super Bowl Ads and Performances



I basically agree with everything he says...



ESPN.com - Page2 - The good, bad, empty on Super Sunday



Here is a sample:





The Empty



Levi's bison thing. Two problems: 1. Made absolutely no sense. 2. (And I'm quoting my wife on this one) Those are some ugly-ass jeans.



AT&T Wireless "Gilligan's Island" bit. Felt like an Old Navy rip-off, only nostalgia making me want to buy clothes I can see; nostalgia making me want to spend my hard-earned cash on your fancy little phones? Not so much.

-17 degrees



That is what it is here this morning. We have been below freezing now for 18 days in a row--that is a lot of cold. Personally I was graced with a respite when I was away in Wichita, KA last week and it was a balmy 67 degrees. There is a glimmer of hope, it is supposed to be 33 degrees tomorrow with three inches of snow and some sleet thrown in to make it interesting, I guess.

BUCS WIN!



From the The Tampa Tribune - Online Edition



Too much. Free beer for every Buccaneer touchdown at Kazbor's Sports Grille in Zephyrhills. Count 'em, six rounds for hundreds on the house. Too much, groaned co-owner Kristy Anderson.



Not many would have predicted the Bucs scoring 48 points! I had only predicted half that many. I know to the casual fan it must have been a bore but to a Bucs fan you could not have asked for a better game.

Need an Interesting Speaker for Your Catholic Group?



I'm available. Here is the talk I'm currently scheduled to give both at the St. Louis Catechetical Congress and the NCEA convention this year. If you visit my home page and click on appearances you'll get some idea of various parts of the country I'l be visiting throughout this year. If your parish is nearby I would be happy to schedule a talk in conjunction with travel I'm alread planning. In most cases my wife Amy could also speak. Check her site out too!

I was Right! Thanks to Amy for Finding the Proof!



Ever since I first saw this beer commercial I said that it was a rippoff of Tom T. Hall's "I Love." Hopefully Coors is paying him big royalties.



From the NY Times:



The team of Aaron Evanson and John Godsey provided the ''Love Songs'' idea. Two hours before the meeting, they were driving back from a focus group in Indianapolis when Godsey, 38, came up with the idea of writing a love song for guys. His inspiration was ''I Love,'' a 1974 hit by Tom T. Hall in which the country musician extols the virtues of, among other things, pickup trucks, coffee in a cup and little fuzzy pups. Knowing that puppies weren't likely to sell beer, they began to compile a list of things they thought would -- ''sports, supermodels, eating and hanging out with friends,'' Evanson says.

Super Bowl Prediction:



Tampa Bay 24

Oakland 13