Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Cambridge MA This is a hectic time of the academic year as classes end and papers are due and as other school business gets wrapped up before the winter Christmas break and of course life goes on so there are always other preoccupations as well But in the midst of it all earlier this week I

Cambridge MA Blogging is fine but face-to-face classroom conversation is better ndash for many reasons but including the ability to point our attention back to the issue at hand at any given point So it was the occasion for a great sigh ndash Sigh mdash that my last post on my interrelig

Cambridge MA I am not sure if readers appreciate hearing about events at Harvard but I cannot help returning once again to the manner in which my ldquo new rdquo life at Harvard mdash as professor and now as Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions mdash keeps opening up for

Cambridge MA I spent a bit of time on this quiet Saturday rearranging books in the vain hope that by moving them around and to hitherto unnoticed corners and book-case bottoms I might find more space For the rule is sure if the graduate student spends a lot of time accumulating books with an

Cambridge MA I was at first relieved when Jim Martin rsquo s typically excellent entry ldquo Catholic Bloggers Aim to Purge rdquo was pointed out to me to realize that whatever attacks are made against me by the Purgers they are so mild that I do not notice them But then I was alarmed to re

Cambridge MA Several weeks back I wrote about medieval Cistercian monk John of Ford rsquo s reading of the last verse of the Song of Songs ldquo Flee my beloved and become like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices rdquo My point mdash nbsp and I am not sure I convinced an

Cambridge MA Life is particularly hectic these days at Harvard since not only are we in the middle of the semester mdash a happy but exhausting time and the business of the semester multiplies mdash but two other factors impinge on my time and energy First there is the American Academy of

Cambridge MA Today is the birthday of Mohandas K Gandhi It is true that his particular programs and positions have faded with age mdash Indians do not live in the past and have moved on for better or worse and it is true that now as in the past there are thoughtful Indians of Hindu and ot

Cambridge MA A note to the interested In my entry on Saturday I spoke of my existential moment juggling watching the Pope in the UK my most interesting and daunting life at Harvard and the prospect of preaching on I Timothy 2 with its own triple focus on the king the one God and the one he

Cambridge MA Saturday 6 10 PM It rsquo s been a few weeks since I rsquo ve blogged mdash the combination of the hectic beginning of semester the exhausted my three blogs on Dominus Iesus and the happy ceding this space for two unique and interesting entries by Deacon Mike Iwanowicz mdas