Berkley Center

Dr. John Borelli, a historian of religions and theologian, is special assistant for Catholic identity and dialogue to President John J. DeGioia of Georgetown University. Borelli has been at Georgetown University since 2004, where he teaches, manages conferences and events, coordinates dialogues, facilitates workshops, and promotes university relations with offices and institutes of the Holy See.

John Carr is co-director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University. Previously, he served for over 20 years as director of the Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Don Eberly is a civil society advocate who founded and directed the Civil Society Project, aimed to encourage moral and social renewal through an increased public role for non-governmental organizations. Eberly's publications includes, among others, Liberate and Leave: Fatal Flaws in the Early Post-War Strategy (2009).

John P. Langan, S.J. was the Cardinal Bernardin Chair in Catholic Social Thought in the Department of Philosophy, Rose Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and a faculty fellow at the Berkley Center at Georgetown University until his death in March 2020. He also taught at Yale Divinity School, Drew University, and Loyola University Chicago. Langan's research interests included ethics and international affairs, especially applications of just war theory; human rights in theory and practice; capital punishment; Catholic social teaching; the place of religion in liberal political thought; and the ethical theories of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine. He edited Catholic Universities in Church and Society (1993) and A Moral Vision for America (1998). Langan held an A.B., M.A., and Ph.L. from Loyola University, as well as a B.D. from Woodstock College and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Ronald Sider is distinguished senior professor of theology, holistic ministry, and public policy at Eastern University's Palmer Seminary. An evangelical Christian intellectual, he is the founder and president emeritus of Evangelicals for Social Action.