Berkley Center

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.

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.

Research Fellow Jerome Copulsky's book American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order (2024) has been reviewed for outlets including Current, Law & Liberty, Lawfare, and Patheos.

A 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.