Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Cambridge MA I have been teaching a seminar on the Bhagavad Gita reading it with two classical commentaries by Ramanuja 11th century and by Madhusudana Sarasvati 16th century and two modern commentaries by Mahatma Gandhi and by Bede Griffiths the Catholic monk who lived for many years in

Cambridge MA I have been making entries for In All Things for almost a year now and by my count this is the 25th such contribution I have recently written of dreams or nightmares about elections and accountability in the Church interreligious violence and love I have also tr

Cambridge MA When the election was upon us in the past few weeks I was writing in this column about love now that Barack Obama is our president-elect it is a moment to reflect on the meaning of the election Instead of any wide-ranging reflection mdash I am no pandit mdash I would like simp

Cambridge MA In last week rsquo s entry to this column I explained how I attempted to write a piece for the Sunday New York Times rsquo Modern Love section on loving God I explained that I thought that we should be able to speak of loving God in a modern accessible way My piece was not accep

Cambridge MA I have been feeling at least mildly guilty lately mdash as an occasional blogger who has written hardly a word about the presidential election except to point out how unimaginative and inane most of our inter religious thinking has been when it comes to politics and what we do or

Cambridge MA The New York Times for Monday October 13 caught my eye three times over with items of sadness that pertain to interreligious relations interreligious thinking On the front page one article talked about the campaign dedicated to spreading the rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim A

nbsp Cambridge MA The past weeks have been a time of upheaval ranging from the hurricanes in the south to collapse on Wall Street plus the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the still longer term disasters of our environmental crisis sporadic and systematized violence sometimes relig

nbsp nbsp Cambridge MA As we get closer to the election there is naturally more discussion of the role of religion in politics including the responsibilities of Catholics both as candidates and as voters Much of the discussion has to do with issues such as abortion genetic engineering and

Cambridge MA It is already nearly the middle of August and soon the new academic year will be upon us So it is time to finish the four-part series I began in May based on my spring seminar at Harvard on Pata ntilde jali rsquo s Yoga Sutras studied carefully but also read in light of Ignatiu