Cambridge, MA. Back in October, at the time of the Synod on the Amazon, there was much attention paid to the images of the pregnant woman, larger and smaller, present in the scene set up to mark the Synod. Later...
Cambridge, MA. I was in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, January 7-12, a brief trip indeed, but also my very first visit to Africa. I’ve gone to India many times, and here and there in Asia over the decades, but never before to Africa. I was...
Cambridge, MA. There is tumult in many Indian cities the past few days, in protest against Prime Minister Modi’s new citizenship law. It ostensibly aims to bring order to rules favoring the...
Cambridge, MA. We are getting deep into the short season of Advent, and the words of Isaiah echo still more strongly before our mind's eye. On December 1, we heard this promise:
Cambridge, MA. During the recent day set aside for prospective students at Harvard Divinity School where I teach, several visitors asked me what it was like to be a Catholic priest at HDS; one...
Geneva, October 6. This has been a busy time, and I have felt a bit guilty to have missed on October 2 the 150th birth anniversary of Mohandas K. Gandhi — a most...
It was just yesterday that I finished my second round-the-world trip. The first one, long ago, was West-East and spread over several years: part one in 1973 (NY-London-Paris-Rome-Beirut-Karachi-Delhi-Kathmandu) and part two in 1975 (Kathmandu-...
I have been back for a few days now, though not enough to be quite over jetlag, from a nearly two week trip first to the Catholic University in Leuven in Belgium for the dissertation defense of Fr. Dr. Yesudasan Remias, who...
Cambridge, MA. 
On December 1, we heard this promise:
It was just yesterday that I finished my second round-the-world trip. The first one, long ago, was West-East and spread over several years: part one in 1973 (NY-London-Paris-Rome-Beirut-Karachi-Delhi-Kathmandu) and part two in 1975 (Kathmandu-...
