The Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture sponsors and supports programming that explores basic human questions of meaning, morality, and mutual obligation.
The McFarland Center is a worldwide leader in helping scholars, students, and the broader public understand the diversity and context-specificity of Catholic practice today, in a Church whose greatest vitality is increasingly found in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
The McFarland Center is committed to interreligious understanding, in particular Jewish-Christian understanding, through a range of initiatives on campus and through sponsorship of Readings from the Roots, a scripture translation project.
To address the grand challenges of our time and the forces that have shaped the world we live in at the intersections of religion, ethics, and culture, the McFarland Center works alongside Holy Cross faculty to sponsor dozens of on-campus programs annually.
Following the principle that faith and learning are partners in liberal education, the McFarland Center's programs foster dialogue that respects differences and provide a forum for intellectual exchange that is interreligious as well as interdisciplinary, intercultural, and international in scope.