Meghan J. Clark, Ph.D., is a professor of moral theology at St John’s University (NY). At St. John’s, Dr. Clark engages students inside and outside the classroom on diverse topics in moral theology and Catholic social thought. In 2015, Dr. Clark was a Fulbright Scholar to the Hekima Institute for Peace Studies and International Relations at Hekima University College, Nairobi, Kenya. She has conducted fieldwork on human rights and solidarity in Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania. In May 2018, she was a Visiting Residential Research Fellow at the Centre for Catholic Studies at the University of Durham (UK).
She is author of The Vision of Catholic Social Thought: the Virtue of Solidarity and the Praxis of Human Rights (Fortress Press, 2014) and co-editor of Public Theology and the Global Common Good: The Contribution of David Hollenbach (Orbis, 2106). She contributed the commentary on Caritas in Veritate in the 2nd edition of Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations (Georgetown University Press, 2017). She has published in Theological Studies, the Journal of Moral Theology, Journal of Catholic Social Thought, Heythrop Journal and others. Active in public theology, she writes for US Catholic magazine , as well as, for America and NCR.
In 2022, she was Assistant Coordinator for North America for the global theology project “Doing Theology from the Existential Peripheries,” a project of the Migrant & Refugee Section of the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development. Currently, she is on the Catholic team for the Dicastery for Christian Unity’s Conversations with the Salvation Army. A senior fellow at St. John’s Vincentian Center for Church and Society, Dr. Clark also serves as a faculty expert for the Holy See’s Mission to the United Nations. From 2010-2013, she served as a Consultant to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Domestic Justice. She received her Ph.D. in Theological Ethics from Boston College (2009) and her BA summa cum laude in cursu honorum in philosophy and theology from Fordham University (2003).
Other Videos of interest from Dr. Clark:
Practicing compassion and solidarity is not weakness, it is a sign of our common humanity.VIEW
The Rich Fool helps us remember that private property is not absolute. The goods of the earth are never really just “mine” to do with as I please.VIEW