# Videos ### The Necessary Uncertainty of Today's Interreligious Encounters - Fr. Francis Clooney Fr. Francis Clooney, SJ, gave this public lecture on June 2, 2025, at the cathedral in Bonn, Germany, under the auspices of the International Center for Comparative Theology and Social Issues. The lecture was followed by a discussion with Center director Klaus von Stosch and public intellectual Gesina Schwan. ### Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story - Fr. Francis Clooney Fr. Francis Clooney, SJ, spoke in the Santa Barbara Temple on Sunday, January 12th, 2025. ### The Mystery of Mary: Reflections on the Immaculate Conception" by Francis X. Clooney, S.J. Live recording of the talk given at the Sunday Satsang at Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Boston, USA, on November 3rd, 2024. ### Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story On October 1, 2024, HDS hosted a celebration of "Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story," the new memoir from HDS Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J. Joining Prof. Clooney on a panel of respondents were: Rajeev Persaud, MTS ’24, Andrea Bischoff, MTS ’24, and Jonathan Makransky, multireligious ministry initiatives coordinator at HDS. The event was introduced by Kerry Maloney, Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life. Sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain and Religious and Spiritual Life and by the Office of Ministry Studies. ### Lecture: Wisdom of Sri Ramanuja Published on June 2, 2024. Delivered at the Sri Venkateshwara Temple, Pittsburgh, PA, one of oldest Hindu Temples in the Western Hemisphere. ### Thomas J. and Mary H. Loftus Lecture - Hinduism and Me: A Catholic Priest’s 50 Years of Hindu Studies Delivered on April 25, 2024, at Gannon University in Erie, PA ### Book Recommendations from Harvard Faculty Published April 2, 2024 ### Lecture: Reading Mystical Poetry Interreligiously: The Case of Hindu-Christian Love for God Delivered on March 11, 2024, at Gregorian University in Rome ### Annual Holy Spirit Lecture Delivered on April 4, 2024, at Duquesne University. ### Lecture: Two Stories of Christmas: Learning from St. Luke and St. Matthew Delivered on December 17, 2023, at the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society in Boston. Lecture: The Silber-Obrecht Lecture 2023, Lecture #1: What is the State of the Emerging Field of Interreligious and Interfaith Studies? Occasion: The Silber-Obrecht Lecture, the first endowed lectureship in the emerging field of Interreligious and Interfaith Studies, is a three-day academic residency in Baltimore that will be held every other year. The lectureship aims to advance the field of study by presenting new and creative work by a senior scholar and interreligious practitioner. The inaugural Silber-Obrecht Lecture was held April 25-27, 2023, at Loyola University Maryland. The lecture is managed and sponsored by the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies. ### ### Lecture: The Silber-Obrecht Lecture 2023, Lecture #2: What is the Future of the Field? Occasion: The Silber-Obrecht Lecture, the first endowed lectureship in the emerging field of Interreligious and Interfaith Studies, is a three-day academic residency in Baltimore that will be held every other year. The lectureship aims to advance the field of study by presenting new and creative work by a senior scholar and interreligious practitioner. The inaugural Silber-Obrecht Lecture was held April 25-27, 2023, at Loyola University Maryland. The lecture is managed and sponsored by the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies. ### Lecture: On the Edge: Reflections on Being a Christian Intellectual amid Many Religions Occasion: The 2023 Boston College Candlemas Lecture was delivered on February 8, 2023. The lecture was sponsored by the Boston College Lowell Humanities Series, the Boston College Theology Department, and the GBH Forum Network. ### Lecture: Hindu Poetry and Christian Particularity: Translation, Disruption, Revelation Occasion: "Hindu Poetry and Christian Particularity" was the annual Cole Lecture for 2022 at the Vanderbilt Divinity School, given on October 10, 2022. ### Lecture: Ramakrishna and Me On Sunday, June 19, 2022, Swami Tyagananda, Director, invited me to give the Sunday sermon at the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society in Boston, and I was honored to come and speak. My lecture/sermon spoke of the meaning of Sri Ramakrishna for me as a Catholic priest and Jesuit and scholar, over the past 40+ years. ### Conference Presentation: Theological Comparison as Translation Given on May 11, 2022 at a workshop at Oxford University, "Translation and Interpretation: The Case for Comparative Philosophy" ### Lecture: “Ramakrishna and Me" (earlier version) Given on January 16, 2022 at the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society in Hollywood, California. ### Interview about *Beyond Compare* on Why Knowledge Matters Interview with Professor Clooney on his book, ***Beyond Compare: Sri Vedanta Desika and St. Francis de Sales on Loving Surrender to God***. It was conducted by Yanik Muller on his Why Knowledge Matters webcast on January 4, 2022. ### Lecture: Mother Mary, Mother Kali: The Compassion of God Lecture given at the Vedanta Society, Providence, Rhode Island, on Sunday, October 17, 2021, on the theme, **“Mother Mary, Mother Kali: the Compassion of God”** ### Interview about *Divine Mother, Blessed Mother* **Interview with Professor Clooney about his book** [***Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary***](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/divine-mother-blessed-mother-9780195170375?cc=us&lang=en&) **(Oxford University Press, 2005)**, recorded by Florence Pasche Guignard on August 3, 2021 and published on September 13, 2021. ### Interview about The Deep Study of Hindu Tradition from a Catholic Tradition This episode of "Why Knowledge Matters" was posted on April 26, 2021. ## An Interview on Comparative Theology Hosted by Professor Klaus von Stosch, Zentrum für Komparative Theologie und Kulturwissenschaften (ZeKK), University of Paderborn, Germany ## Peter Craigie Memorial Lecture Sunday, March 14: Peter Craigie Memorial Lecture: “The Autobiographical Turn: On the Origins and Future of My Work in Hindu-Christian Studies” ## Peter Craigie Seminar Monday, March 15: The Peter Craigie Seminar: “Toward a Comparative Theology: Faith Seeking Understanding” ## Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics ## Mujahid Talks: The Muslim Mary and the Muslim Jesus ## Meru Manthan Episode 2 ### To listen to the podcast, click select link below: ##### ##### ##### [https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9tZXJ1Lm1lZGlhL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdA%3D%3D&hl=en](https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9tZXJ1Lm1lZGlhL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdA==&hl=en) ## Vedanta for the 21st Century ## Lecture in Melbourne at the Australian Intercultural Society ### ## Easter and Human Transformation ## Thoughts on Ignatian Yoga ### ### Krishna's Instruction in the Bhagavad Gita ### ### [Why Comparative Theology Works Interreligiously](https://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/tag/comparative-theology/) ### [ ![Why Comparative Theology Works Interreligiously](/sites/g/files/omnuum2606/files/francisclooney/files/edin_vid.png) ](https://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/tag/comparative-theology/) ### Prof Francis X Clooney speaking at the OCHS 20th Anniversary Dinner 2018 ### Professor Francis X. Clooney || Bhagavad Ramanujacharya || Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji ### How great teachers teach ### Professor Francis Clooney (Harvard) on ‘An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hindu Theology’ ### ### Learning Interreligiously as a Catholic ### His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence ### Studying Religions in a Religiously Diverse World ### ### Ethics of Bewilderment ### Francis Clooney Discusses the Dynamics of Early Jesuits in India ### The 2014 Catholicism In Dialigue Lecture: Hinduism and Catholicism: Finding God in All Things ### Discussion of BEING DIFFERENT between Rajiv Malhotra and Francis Clooney at UMass ### Contours of Common Ground ### [ ![contours of common ground](/sites/g/files/omnuum2606/files/francisclooney/files/controus.jpg) ](/