Michael J. Callaghan, C.M.

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Associate Professor

Humanities
College of Professional Studies

St. John's University

Academic Background

  • Ph.D., Literature, New York University

Research Interests

  • People with passion for social justice who have the capacity to inspire others to serve, especially, Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day

Affiliation with the Center

Senior Vincentian Research Fellow,
Class of 2003

"As a Vincentian priest and university professor, my participation as a Fellow calls me to a deeper conversion and inspires me to form tomorrow's leaders to be a compassionate leaven in the larger world."

Food for Thought

Catholic universities will be particularly attentive to the poorest and to those who suffer economic, social, cultural or religious injustice. This responsibility begins within the academic community but it also finds application beyond it.

Pope John Paul II, Ex Corde Ecclesiae (40)