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Prof. Francis X Clooney
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A Life of Learning: A Love Story
I was pleased to read the August 10 post in the Universal Enlightenment & Flourishing Newsletter on the theme, “A Lifelong Quest: How We Learn Religion Differently Through Life Stages”. As I get older — I just turned 74 — I appreciate the theme of “a lifelong quest” all the more. As I look back over my long and mostly happy life, I have been asking myself what kind of learner I have been, including as a religious person, all these decades. As a boy, I started reading novels at about six years old, and I still read them now (invigorates the imagination). In high school, I was a lover of language learning, and as a double major in philosophy and classics, I read widely in the ancient and medieval Christian tradition in college and a few later, in seminary, preparing to become a Catholic priest (I was ordained in 1978), I learned much Christian theology.
Dive Deeper into interfaith insights: Father Clooney’s inspirational journey
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God, in the Storm
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Poetry Across Religions
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The Bhagavad Gita and Christian Lent
This year, the holy Christian period of Lent goes from February 14 through March 28. Lent is a 40-day period in which Christians are asked to commit themselves to varying degrees of fasting, temporarily giving up certain luxuries, and intensifying their devotional practices of things like prayer, almsgiving, and confessing and repenting of sins.
The Lives of Christ and Krishna
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