“Hate is never right, and love is never wrong.”–Roman Kent, Auschwitz survivor In September, I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau for the first time. Studying and even...
Author - Meghan J. Clark
In Rome, one of my favorite places to take my students is the Catacombs of St. Callixtus. There is something mysterious about descending below ground, almost...
In my first few years teaching, as we read Aristotle’s view on friendship, I would ask my students to imagine how the Greek philosopher would evaluate the...
In January, dolphins were spotted swimming in the Bronx River. This was simply unthinkable not long ago. The once infamously polluted waters in and around New...
“I don’t know what to do with Gaudium et Spes,” I exclaimed, sinking into a chair in my professor’s office during graduate school. “Perhaps you should not say...
“Do you feed your children macaroni?” This was an actual question that 19th-century officials surveying the Lower East Side of New York City would ask Italian...
I have a personal confession: I am terrible at resting. I am reasonably good at making time for friends and fun outings, but I often do it at the expense of...
Readings (Year C): Deuteronomy 30:10-14Psalms 69:14, 17, 30 – 31, 33 – 34, 36, 37Colossians 1:15 – 20Luke 10:25 – 37 Reflection: Who...
As I paced up and down the aisles of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles on a quiet, gray January morning, I found myself transfixed by...