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July 31, 2024

Jocelyne Cesari on Religion and the Olympics

Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari spoke on a July 31 panel hosted by Religion Media Centre to discuss the role of religion in recent headlines regarding the 33rd Olympic Summer Games in Paris, France, as well as the country's separation of church and state.

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July 24, 2024

Paul Elie on J.D. Vance’s Radical Religion

In a Daily Comment for the New Yorker, Senior Fellow Paul Elie writes about how Republican Party vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance's 2019 conversion to Catholicism influences his political worldview.

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January 6, 2025

Georgetown Welcomes Cardinal Robert McElroy as New Archbishop of Washington

Over the past decade, McElroy has visited Georgetown and engaged with events hosted by the Berkley Center and the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. He also contributed a chapter to the Georgetown University Press book A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament, co-edited by the late Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., then a Berkley Center senior fellow.

A family prays at a burial site as the sun comes down on a cloudy day

December 13, 2024

Student Research on Religion and COVID-19 in Sri Lanka

In "The Right to Bury Their Dead," Minahil Mahmud (SFS'25) examines the challenges faced by the Muslim community in Sri Lanka when the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa mandated in April 2020 that all victims of COVID-19 would be cremated, irrespective of their religious beliefs.

Roses and stained glass in a church.

November 26, 2024

Brian Flanagan Quoted on Synod on Synodality Final Report

Religion News Service article quotes Research Fellow Brian Flanagan on the impact of Pope Francis' support for the final report from the Synod on Synodality, the Catholic Church's recently concluded three-year consultation process.

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