Bono Visits Refugee Camp in Jordan

Nature versus Grace

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The nuns taught us there are two ways through life, the way of Nature and the way of Grace.

You have to choose which one you'll follow.

Grace doesn't try to please itself.

It accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked.

It accepts insults and injuries.

Nature only wants to please itself. Gets others to please it, too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it.

And love is smiling through all things.

Karoake with Chris Martin

McCartney Doin' Up the 60s

Tramps like us

Jackson and Bruce

The u2 Super Bowl Performance Ranks #2

January 31, 2016 Sunday

There have been years when the Super Bowl Halftime Show was more entertaining than the actual game.

And there have been times when the show was, well, not so super.

With Coldplay and other acts ready to blow us away -- or at least try to -- Feb. 7 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, here's how we rank the Super Bowl Halftime Shows, from best to worst, of the 21st century.

1. Super Bowl XLIX (2015)

Starring: Katy Perry 

Location: University of Phoenix Stadium (Glendale, Arizona)

The skinny: Perry definitely scored with this incredibly elaborate, amazingly orchestrated pop spectacle, which currently stands as the best halftime show in Super Bowl history. The multiplatinum pop star roared through her seven-song set, delivering a performance that was fun, flashy and fantastic. Everything worked, from the bold opening segment (with Perry riding onto the field atop a giant golden tiger) to the closer (a bright "Fireworks," sung aboard a shooting star). Guest appearances by Lenny Kravitz, Missy Elliott and the Arizona State University Sun Devil Marching Band added to the fun.

2. Super Bowl XXXVI (2002)

Starring: U2

Location: Louisiana Superdome (New Orleans)

Catching Up with the Dublin Quartet

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Late at night, in a fast car on the motorway between Turin and Milan, en route to meet the Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, Bono goes quiet before saying: “The greatest line ever said about me and also the most accurate line ever said about me was most definitely by my father. He said, ‘You, Bono, are a baritone who thinks he’s a tenor.’ And that is the story of my life right there.”