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.
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...
Poughkeepsie, NY. August 25th 2018 marks my 50th anniversary as a Jesuit, and to celebrate, I’ve just had dinner with my remaining classmate (out of 17), Fr Daniel G. O’Hare (a professor at the New...
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. I drafted this reflection yesterday, while on a 14 hour flight from Dubai to Boston, returning home after a brief three...
