Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Cape Cod Mass — Like everyone else old enough to remember I am marking this week the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy The other day I stopped by the J F K Memorial in Hyannis see picture so near to where the Kennedys even now still have their summer home and spent so

Cape Cod MA Some readers may have noticed in the October 30 New York Times the article by Tamar Lewin on the decline of the Humanities as a field of study at colleges and universities even large private universities such as Stanford and Princeton As she notes ldquo The future of the humanities

Cape Cod MA If you google ldquo Allah rdquo and ldquo Christian rdquo and ldquo Malaysia rdquo together today you will come up with a number of websites including the BBC and Wall Street Journal reporting the news today October 14 that the Malaysian Court of Appeals has ruled that Chris

Cape Cod MA Readers of my essays here over the years know that while I take various approaches to interreligious matters mdash my ldquo portfolio rdquo for In All Things mdash nbsp ranging from occasional current events to papal pronouncements I am also concerned about our basic Christian a

Seattle Washington mdash I am here at Seattle University doing some workshops for the School of Theology and Ministry on interreligious learning mdash this school is a leader in the new wave of interfaith ministerial training mdash and so I have fallen behind a bit on the news But a friend

Cape Cod Mass Like many readers of America I am grateful to Antonio Spadaro S J the editors of America and allied journals and all those involved in Pope Francis rsquo interview which is so much in the news this week It is hard to believe where we are at the moment with this breath of fre

Cape Cod MA A colleague has reminded me that 9 11 now seared into our memories as a day of tragedy and the class of civilizations is also by a longer perspective a day of hope for those committed to interreligious understanding For it was on this day in 1893 120 years ago that Swami Vivekana

Cape Cod MA I am as mentioned several weeks back when reporting on my retreat entering upon a year rsquo s sabbatical I am thinking that perhaps it will be of interest to some readers of In All Things if I report in now and then on my year including later on my trip to India Sri Lanka and

nbsp Cape Cod MA I am about to blog about the beginning of my sabbatical but more immediately and first I would like to call your attention to a fine journal Dilatato Corde perhaps ldquo With An Open Heart rdquo which appears online and also in printed form It is a Catholic journal in th

Snowmass Colorado The summer has swept by quickly as I am sure you will agree I had intended to blog for In All Things more than I managed to in the past weeks but both time and inspiration were in short supply during the travels and writing projects of summer In any case this is a report nd