A desire to return to nature need not be labeled “un-Christian.” Ashes to ashes, after all.
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is the Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard University, and a scholar of Hinduism and Hindu-Christian studies. He wrote for America’s In All Things column between 2007 and 2016. His latest book, The Future of Hindu-Christian Studies, has recently been published by Routledge.
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Religion, ecology and our planetary future
No religious community can exempt itself from responsibility for the earth.
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The Gospel of the 10 lepers seen through Catholic (and Hindu) eyes
I have been deeply influenced by Hinduism in preparing my homilies, but I have almost never mentioning Hinduism from the pulpit.
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The clash of religions is overstated. Ours is an age of interfaith awareness.
The building of walls and the exclusion of the stranger are truly not the main forces of our time.
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Sunday at St. Salvator’s in Scotland: a time for interreligious reflection
On Sunday morning, I joined in the Sunday service at St. Salvator’s Chapel, the University Church at St. Andrews.
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Building inter-religious understanding and peace at a place marked by violence
While not all will be at ease with the pace of new movements toward interreligious understanding, it would be very hard indeed to argue that things have not changed for the better.
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We can’t all be Mother Teresa.
The soon-to-be-saint challenges us to answer our own personal call, in the radical way that only you and I can.
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Humans of Harvard Divinity School: Who we are at 200 years
You might think that the Jesuit and Catholic priest doesn’t (or shouldn’t) really fit in at HDS.
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Hindus and Catholics together in Washington, D.C.
The Hindu population of the United States is growing, now reaching about 2.5 million.
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The Good Samaritan: in a time of violence, Jesus calls us to be neighbors to everyone who needs us
If we act like the Samaritan in refusing to pass by at a distance, we will be releasing a force greater than all the guns and all the fears and hatred in our society.