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July 29, 2020

Pondering Hiroshima

Senior Fellow Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., is participating in an August 6 panel discussion on the legacy and tension caught up in the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hosted by the Lumen Christi Institute for Catholic Thought and co-sponsored by the Berkley Center.

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July 28, 2020

Is Religion the Blind Spot of Populism?

On June 23 Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari moderated a panel discussion on religion and populism as part of the European Academy of Religion's 2020 online conference. The event video is now available on YouTube.

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July 23, 2020

Why You Shouldn’t Dismiss Mike Pompeo’s Report on Human Rights

In an America online Short Take, Senior Fellow Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., argues that the newly released Draft Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights is a consensus document, centrist in a sophisticated way seldom found in public documents.

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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.

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.

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