The work of the Tertio Millennio Seminar is to equip our participants with the
rich resources of Catholic social teaching, and to do so in a setting that underscores both how high the stakes are (one would be hard pressed to
find anywhere a more poignant reminder of
man's horrific capacity to abuse himself than in the rubble of the Birkenau crematoria, which our students visit), and, more importantly, the realistic hope that mankind can, and must, do much better.