12. Personal Experience of Difference and Convergence: Teaching Moral Theology in Sri Lanka and Rome

In our contemporary world, thanks mainly to globalization and migration, it is difficult to find a mono-cultural society. Consequently, even at centers of learning, we often find students (and teachers) who belong to diverse cultures. In this essay, drawing on my experience as a professor of theological ethics who has been teaching in two culturally diverse contexts (continents) for more than two decades, I share some personal reflections on teaching to highlight that the communication of one language cannot be accurately (literally) translated into another. The diverse nuances of particular languages and cultures that one finds in and between two groups of students (in two continents) is instructive and shows a diversity which is constitutive for intercultural ethical dialogue.