Comparative religion scholars and comparative theologians will be challenged gently by Clooney's memoir to question the disciplinary boundaries holding their disciplines apart, and general readers will find here a spiritually engaging chronicle of a calling to religious life that plays out in and between two distinctively different religious traditions. One outcome of comparative methodologies is the overcoming of barriers to understanding posed by religious differences, which is a result that this book quietly and effectively achieves.

Reading Religion

The central theme of the memoir, which Clooney says is the 'inner story' of his life, is God's grace. He writes, 'At every stage of my life, I have received far more than I have given…even in midlife, I could not have imagined ending up where I am today.'

Global Indian Times

The extraordinary memoir of Francis X. Clooney, S.J., the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, Harvard Divinity School, and the foremost Jesuit scholar on Hinduism … The memoir offers a sweeping account of his life as a Catholic Priest, Hindu Scholar, and a University Teacher for over forty years.

Pippa Rann Books & Media

Useful for all scholars in reflecting on their work and its potential impact as inseparable from their lived and embodied realities. May we all be inspired by Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story to read and experience deeply across preconceived boundaries and to be open to the transformation of ourselves, and thus the world.

Journal of Interreligious Studies

[An] engaging, informative, and often uplifting memoir-of an estimable scholar and priest, a committed Catholic, and, perhaps in a looser sense, a Hindu too.

Commonweal Review

The autobiography is an engaging narrative of the evolution of C.'s [Clooney's] thought, as well as a powerful examination of the ways one's Ignatian Catholic spirituality flows outward to other religious persons and traditions. The book is accessible for a wide audience.

Theological Studies Journal