Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Cambridge MA I write with two just-reported deaths of religious leaders in mind All of us I am sure were saddened to hear of the death of Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini SJ that admirable pastor and scholar Many of us were also edified and encouraged by his sober and honest last interview with

Cambridge MA Today s New York Times article on the St Louis meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious highlights the mature and peaceful tone of the sisters rsquo closing statement It seems to seek a dialogue on the matters under debate a dialogue of equals that premises the dign

Melbourne My weeks in Melbourne are drawing to a close and if you read my first and second entries you will know that it has been a good and interesting sojourn for me The weather has continued to be sunny and warm 60 degrees in recent days definitely a good model for winter A strand of my v

Melbourne As my first diary indicated I am enjoying my first visit to Australia and this week expanded my horizons beyond Melbourne I spent last weekend in Sydney a city with a truly beautiful harbor and famed for the Opera House and Harbor Bridge It was cold too and rainy But such was ju

Melbourne Victoria Australia I rsquo ve been here in southern Australia for two and a half weeks already This is the southern hemisphere it is winter though the temperature is in the high lsquo 50s each day it is new to see different stars in the night sky and the sun moving across the nort

Cambridge MA Another reason for reading Professor Margaret Farley rsquo s Just Love the book recently censured by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is a reason that might occur mainly to people like me theologian-cum-Hinduism-scholar-and-comparativist it talks about the Kama Sutra

Written somewhere over the Atlantic on the way home to Boston from London – after 3 weeks of travels Let me sketch for you a little overview of my travels so as to draw from the experience a more general conclusion mdash one nbsp that ties in very well I think with the Sunday Gospel for Jun

Cambridge MA Recently I rsquo ve blogged several times on New Testament passages including the transformation of Peter in Acts 10 and the question that Pentecost poses to our Catholic identities But my real job for America is as you probably know to explore the interreligious realm sometimes

Cambridge MA After the Harvard Graduation and just before Pentecost ldquo When the day of Pentecost had come they were all together in one place And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind and it filled the entire house where they were sitting Divided tongues

Cambridge MA It is no easy thing to change the Church In part this is because we who are the Church do not change easily and in part because the institution as institution thrives on settled ideas and fixed ways of acting is loathe to change in new circumstances and fights off possibilities of