Cambridge, MA. I drafted this reflection yesterday, while on a 14 hour flight from Dubai to Boston, returning home after a brief three week trip to India. Despite the jet lag, I thought it best ot finish it today.

I had traveled to south India in the first place for a conference in Hyderabad on Ramanuja, the great theologian of the Shrivaishnava Hindu community that worships Vishnu with the Goddess Sri as the divine couple. 2017 marked his 1000^th birth anniversary....

Cambridge, MA. In every Catholic Mass, just before the exchange of peace that itself precedes communion, the priest prays, "Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your Apostles:...

Cambridge, MA. The first reading at Mass on Sunday July 15 was short and provocative:

Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, ‘Amos has conspired against you in...

Cambridge, MA. I have been preaching regularly for over 40 year, since I was ordained a deacon in 1977 and a priest in 1978. We were urged in seminary to speak without a written text and ideally without notes, and so only very rarely have I written out a homily. I can...

Cambridge, MA. I don’t ordinarily drink alone, but tonight – on Sunday, June 3, the feast of Corpus Christi – before dinner I ate a good slice of bread and...