Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Cambridge MA I am sure that by now regular readers of In All Things have figured out that I am not particularly well-connected in ecclesial circles and certainly have no inside scoop on the Vatican But I can use the internet and read And so when I was disheartened by the latest uproar at the V

Cambridge MA I am privileged once again this year to be the scheduled celebrant at the Holy Thursday liturgy in the parish where I help out Our Lady of Sorrows in Sharon MA Be sure visit this wonderful parish when in the neighborhood I am pondering the shape of the liturgy in my mind and he

Sacramento CA As Holy Week and Easter approach I will continue my wildly popular series of reflections on my Tamil love course with some reflections from a Christian perspective on the poetry of the 9th century south Indian Hindu saint Shatakopan He is one of the alvars like Tirumalisai Pi

Cambridge MA Saturday March 13 As you know I generally leave to others the hottest issues of the day preferring to offer for your reflections comments on less noticed topics that captivate me at least most recently the relevance of the medieval Hindu poet saints Antal and Tirumalisai Piran to

Cambridge MA I rsquo ve told you about my seminar on Tamil love poetry most of it religious in south India In my last installment I told you of Tirumalisai Piran whose two great poems are both philosophical and religious This time I will introduce you to Antal the one female poet among the

Cambridge MA At first I was secretly pleased this past week to come across the Newsweek article entitled ldquo Harvard rsquo s Crisis of Faith Can a secular university embrace religion without sacrificing its soul rdquo The article by Lisa Miller religion editor proposed that Harvard rsquo

Cambridge MA One of the benefits of blogging regularly for America is that I can write what I want including pieces under somewhat arcane headings such as the one above a continuation of my series on my seminar this semester on devotional poetry in the south Indian Tamil language nbsp nbsp n

Cambridge MA We just finished the second week of the semester at Harvard and things are settling down I am team-teaching a first year Master of Divinity course ldquo Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion rdquo which raises some interesting questions about whether and where academic s

Cambridge MA I have never had great sympathy for Pat Robertson and his evangelical slant on the Gospel and Christian life In part it is a matter of cultural differences mdash I am a Jesuit in Cambridge at Harvard after all mdash and also a matter of what seems to be a rather different exp

Cambridge MA Many readers will know that Professor Mary Daly pioneering brilliant and controversial feminist theologian died last week at age 81 nbsp See Jim Martin s note on this too Professor Daly taught for some 30 years at Boston College and so she was my colleague there from 1984 whe