Berkley Center

Until his death in September 2019, Gerard Mannion was the Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University and a senior research fellow at the Berkley Center, where his work focused on the role of the church in the world, on social ethics, and on ecumenical and interreligious dialogue. Mannion published widely in the fields of ecclesiology, ethics, and public theology, as well as in other fields of systematic theology and philosophy. He was the founding chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network and president of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology (2017-2020). His numerous books included Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism: Evangelii Gaudium and the Papal Agenda (2017), Where We Dwell in Common: Pathways for Dialogue in the 21st Century (ed., 2015), The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church (2008, ed. with Lewis Mudge), Catholic Social Justice: Theological and Practical Explorations (2007, co-edited with Philomena Cullen and Bernard Hoose), Ecclesiology and Postmodernity: Questions for the Church in Our Times (2007), and Schopenhauer, Religion and Modernity (2003). He was also editor of the Bloomsbury Publishing series "Ecclesiological Investigations" and series editor, with Oxford University’s Mark Chapman, of Palgrave Macmillan’s “Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue” series.

Joshua J. McElwee is an award-winning Vatican correspondent and international news editor for the National Catholic Reporter and co-editor of A Pope Francis Lexicon. He often appears as an expert on television and radio programs such as National Public Radio, BBC, and PRI.