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May 14, 2025
In a recent interview with CIVICUS Lens, Senior Fellow Paul Elie reflected on the significance of Pope Leo XIV's election, identifying the challenges the papacy will face in the coming years, and discussing how Pope Leo XIV's leadership will differ from that of Pope Francis.
May 9, 2025
Senior Fellow José Casanova joined other Georgetown University experts to reflect on the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native, as Pope Leo XIV—the first American to lead the Catholic Church in its nearly 2,000-year-old history.
May 9, 2025
Senior Fellow Paul Elie writes for the New Yorker about his hope that Pope Leo XIV will be a "pontiff of peace" as the world faces what his predecessor Pope Francis called "a third world war in pieces." Elie also contributed to the New Yorker's daily newsletter shortly after Pope Leo was elected and joined the New Yorker's Critics at Large podcast to discuss his recent reporting from the Vatican on the historic election of Pope Leo.
May 8, 2025
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.
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February 9, 2026
Kenyan nuns are providing vital maternal health care in climate‑stressed regions. Member of the Women Faith Leaders Fellowship (WFLF) 2025-2026 cohort Sister Michelle Njeri, OSF, and WFLF alumna Sister Teresa Kiragu, ASN, are quoted on their faith‑driven efforts to protect mothers and newborns.
January 29, 2026
The Religion, Ethics, and World Affairs Minor (REWA) is an academic program run by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. As a core project of the center’s student programs, the REWA minor invites Georgetown students to learn about the many ways in which religious traditions have been uniquely intertwined with the everchanging world around us.
January 1, 2026
In a Liberty Fund essay, Berkley Center Research Fellow Jerome Copulsky reflects on what the founding document left open once independence was declared, arguing that the declaration offers guiding ideals, but the work of turning those principles into reality falls to each generation.
December 11, 2025
In November 2025 the Georgetown Global Dialogues and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona brought together writers and critics to address the relationship between human frailty and global solidarity, with a focus on voices from the Global South. Videos of the panel discussions are now available.
