Cambridge MA Cycle A in the Sunday Lectionary brings us some wonderful Lenten Gospels In addition to the temptations of Jesus in the desert and the Transfiguration we are given several of the great scenes from the Gospel of John Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well the healing of the
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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Mistreating Animals – at a Slaughterhouse?
Cambridge MA A Lenten reflection I am surely not the only one who thought it sad ironic horrific to read this weekend about mistreatment of cows at the meat-packing plant Some line had been crossed and the normal slaughter of cows had given way to their mistreatment apparently as some a
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Inside-Out With Fr. Nicolas
Cambridge MA Many of the early accounts of our new Jesuit general superior Fr Adolfo Nicolas indicate the great influence of his many years in Asia on his understanding of Catholic and Jesuit life and his strong belief that such rich cultures can and should deeply affect Christian intellectu
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Interreligious Learning in Culver City
Cambridge MA Last week I was in Culver City California — the famed movie town in the midst of Los Angeles I was there to visit the Jesuit Novitiate of the California Province to give a 3-day seminar on interreligious dialogue and related issues to the first year novices of the California and
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On the Scholar’s Work
Cambridge MA — I am still deciding how to blog and it will take a while to figure out what I can write — that America readers will find interesting But I am sure that I must write of and from what I know and central to this has to be also my teaching and my scholarly writing I will have am
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Christmas at Harvard Divinity School
Cambridge Ma — Advent and Christmas perhaps even more than other religious holidays are at first a bit awkward at Harvard even at the Divinity School where I teach While custom and the academic calendar combine to maintain the sense that December is a festive time there is little room for
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Introducing Myself: a Jesuit at Harvard
Cambridge MA Allow me to introduce myself I am a Jesuit of the New York Province which I entered in 1968 at the old St Andrew s Novitiate just north of Poughkeepsie For over two decades I taught in the Theology Department at Boston College a very wonderful educational and theological en
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The Mosque Next Door
The Sri Lakshmi Temple is a popular center for the worship of the goddess Lakshmi known for her graciousness and generosity Tamil-speaking Hindu priests perform the daily and festival rituals while Hindus young and old come from neighboring towns to beg her favor and celebrate her glory To Lakshm
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Dominus Iesus and the New Millennium: Different religious beliefs, acts and communities are treated generically, as if their differences do not matter.
Dominus Iesus, published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, of which Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is prefect, is an instruction about the identity of Christ, the integral interconnection of Christ, revelation and the church, and consequently (in the sections to which I restrict my comme