When I was a child, our family would always set up a Christmas scene under the tree: the angels and shepherds, Joseph and Mary, and there in the manger in the stable, the newborn Jesus. Our set included the wise men too, but we put them somewhere else in...

Cambridge, MA. I often go to India, and it was a special privilege to travel last week to Jerusalem for an academic visit that was also a kind of retreat experience amid elemental realities of human and sacred life in today’s world. I stayed at the Jesuit community at the...

Cambridge, MA. It is not often that the New York Times meshes nicely with the Catholic liturgical calendar, but I could not help to notice a connection on November 25.

There was ...

Cambridge, MA, October 27. Today’s tragic, outrageous murders at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, following so closely upon this week’s bomb threats against many leading citizens, seems destined to convince us yet again that...

Cambridge, MA. In Rome today, Pope Francis canonized seven new saints. Most well known was Pope Paul VI (1897-1978), who steered Vatican Council II through to its successful conclusion, and oversaw the tumultuous first years of the...

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