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...
Lent is nearing its end, as the academic year too move more quickly toward its conclusion, more hectic than ever; we can be excused if we shut out the world around us, and if we neglect the Lenten season itself....
Cambridge, MA. Last week Pope Francis made two remarkable statements. The first was a striking joint statement Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar,...
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-...
