October 27, 2013 This afternoon I found myself sitting on the front porch of a woman named Maggie. No, I wasn’t with my own mother on our front porch on Pennsylvania Street in Indianapolis, but it was about as close as I could get here in Amman. I had been walking to the Vatican library …
dotCommonweal: “Mercy-ing: A Starting Point for Dialogue”
My newest blog post on dotCommonweal. Start reading here and then continue by clicking "Read more." Amid all the excitement from the unprecedented interview with Pope Francis published by Jesuit journals worldwide, many Catholics may have missed one of the Pontiff’s more subtle communiqués: a letter sent to the head of al-Azhar University, a highly respected institution …
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Hope for the Pope: Catholic-Muslim relations in the new pontificate
Note: I'm very honored to host my first guest on the blog: Fr. Michael Calabria, a Franciscan friar. Since we met in the fall, when he came to Georgetown to work on his doctoral dissertation in Qur'anic studies, I've considered him a good friend and the "Franciscan friar version of myself." We wrote the following …
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Christus Paradox: Reflections on “Of Gods and Men”
You shouldn’t read this blog post. At least not until you see the film, “Of Gods and Men.” Really, stop now if you intend to watch it and don’t want me to spoil it for you. The movie tells the true story of French monks living in the hills of Algeria during the civil war …
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My talk at the Ignatian Family Teach-In
Last weekend, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to deliver the following speech at the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice to an audience of over 1,000. Using my own experiences with Muslim-Christian dialogue and the documents of the Second Vatican Council, I argued that we as Catholics are called to engage in interreligious dialogue. …
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