Berkley Center

Senior Research Fellow E.J. Dionne writes in the Washington Post that the selection of Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, means there will be no turning back from the direction charted by Pope Francis, who made Prevost a cardinal in 2023.

Senior Fellow Paul Elie writes in Vanity Fair about a remarkable photograph the Jesuit priest and author Rev. James Martin, S.J., took at the Vatican synod in October 2024. Elie describes the photo as an image of the Catholic future that Pope Francis brought near—and that the next pope ought to carry forward.

Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Abraham Skorka and Senior Fellow Andrew Prevot were featured in the recent event, "Remembering Pope Francis," hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life and the Office of Mission and Ministry at Georgetown University. Rabbi Skorka and Prevot were quoted in Catholic Review's coverage of the event, and Prevot's reflections were also featured in a Black Catholic Messenger article. 

Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville will join a May 6 panel discussion exploring how the Trump administration’s foreign policy engages with religious freedom issues in the context of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war.