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Joe Biden speaks to supporters during the 2002 Iowa Caucuses. Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore.

August 17, 2020

Joe Biden Campaigns on Faith

Berkley Center Director Shaun Casey is quoted in a Christianity Today article examining the impact of outreach that emphasizes the presidential candidate's Catholic faith, given the historically complicated relationship between American Catholics and evangelicals.

Paul Elie

August 12, 2020

Confront the Facts on Flannery O’Connor

Writing for Commonweal, Senior Fellow Paul Elie argues that if we are going to look to Flannery O’Connor’s work to help us understand matters of race, we’ve got to understand the work itself, including her objectionable remarks of May 1964.

Rainbow and fountain in Nagasaki Peace Park

August 6, 2020

Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

Senior Fellow Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., is one of the signatories to the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Accord, in which the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Charter for Compassion, Religions for Peace, and the United Religions Initiative commit to a united stance in favor of nuclear abolition.

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Cardinal Robert McElroy speaking in front of a podium in Copley Formal Lounge

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.

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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.

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