# Blog Sermons from 2020 to 2021 are available in PDF form. Download [Homilies by Francis X Clooney 2020-21 (PDF)](/sites/g/files/omnuum2606/files/francisclooney/files/homilies_clooney_2020-2021.pdf "homilies_clooney_2020-2021.pdf"). Sort & Filters close ## Filters Publish Date expand\_more 2014 (2) 2015 (32) 2016 (27) 2017 (6) 2018 (22) 2019 (12) 2020 (3) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 199 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 199 results [### Mysterious but Gentle Wisdom for July 4, 2026 ](/news/2026/07/mysterious-gentle-wisdom-july-4-2026) July 05, 2026 To be at an evening Catholic Mass on July 4, 2026, was attend the Saturday vigil Mass for the 14 th Sunday in Ordinary Time. As the priest for the Mass, I wore the vestments and stood in front. Of course, it was also to be at Mass on the 250 th... [### A Wilder Spirit, This Pentecost ](/news/2026/05/wilder-spirit-pentecost) May 10, 2026 (After a homily given this morning, 730 Mass:) The first reading today, Sunday May 12, clearly anticipates the Church’s nearing the end of the Easter season, climaxing in Ascension Thursday (May 14) and Pentecost Sunday (May 26). The first reading is from... [### Baptized for Mission ](/news/2026/01/baptized-mission) January 14, 2026 Baptism for Mission in 2026 Warfare and misery in Israel and Palestine, in Ukraine, in Sudan, in Iran; violence at home, the killing of immigrants and protesters; endemic poverty, unfairness that gives some lavish riches, leaves others burdened by... [### Five Weeks Abroad ](/news/2025/11/five-weeks-abroad) November 20, 2025 Reflection on my travels to three continents and five countries, and home again [### Dharma, the Mahatma, the Saint ](/news/2025/10/dharma-mahatma-saint) October 09, 2025 October 2-3 I was privileged to participate in a conference at California State University, Fresno: Peace and Dharma: Ethics, Nonviolence, and Justice in the Religious Traditions of India . It was sponsored, as every year, by the Uberoi Foundation for... [### In the Light of the Cross ](/news/2025/09/light-cross) September 14, 2025 They shall look upon him whom they have pierced. (Zechariah 12; John 19) The Exaltation of the Holy Cross: September 14's feast commemorates the venerable tradition that St. Helena, mother of the emperor Constantine, discovered the cross of Jesus, and... [### The Good Samaritan In Unneighborly Times ](/news/2025/07/good-samaritan-unneighborly-times) July 18, 2025 The Good Samaritan parable is told by Jesus In Luke 10, a learned scholar has been testing Jesus – “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” – and in turn is pushed by Jesus to give the very essence for Law: You shall love the Lord, your God, with all... [### Roger and Me ](/news/2025/07/roger-and-me) July 04, 2025 Roger Haight, S.J., died on June 19, 2025, in New York City. Like so many others, I have been missing him these past several weeks. I have been thinking about his influence on me—how much he enriched me as a person, a Jesuit and a theologian. Roger and I... [### Antisemitism in a New Testament Text ](/news/2025/05/antisemitism-new-testament-text) May 13, 2025 A New Testament Source for Modern Antisemitism Antisemitism has been on my mind lately — as is the case for so many of us, in the shadow of the violence engulfing Israel and Gaza for well over a year, with tremors shaking societies in the West. My own... [### At Easter 2025 ](/news/2025/04/easter-2025) April 20, 2025 Resurrection and Resistance At the beginning of Lent, I was concerned and worried and angry, as many of us are, at the blatant cruelty, violence, and crass ambition unleashed upon all of us, but especially on the most vulnerable. With a mode of... [### Loving Your Enemies at the Beginning of Lent, 2025 ](/news/2025/03/loving-your-enemies-beginning-lent-2025) March 02, 2025 2025: We live in difficult times, to be sure, and when we see damage being done to our civic society, to our communities, and to the most vulnerable among us — violence multiplied a thousand times and more around the world — we are naturally roused, to... [### The Word Is Fulfilled in Our Hearing, Even Now ](/news/2025/01/word-fulfilled-our-hearing-even-now) January 27, 2025 Sunday church services are built around the Word of God, its proclamation, our hearing it and sharing it, then taking it home with us. Or so we say, and so I imagine, week after week in my parish. But how often does the Word change anything, make a... - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 17 ](?page=16 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")