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Katherine Marshall

April 4, 2024

Katherine Marshall on Religion and Peace at the Grassroots Level

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall will participate in two panels on grassroots religious peacebuilding efforts and religious answers to religious radicalism as part of the Haifa Laboratory for Religious Studies' May 7 symposium on "Religion and Diplomacy in the Middle East."

Rabbi Abraham Skorka

March 26, 2024

Rabbi Abraham Skorka Shares Thoughts on Catholic Easter and Jewish Passover

Senior Research Fellow Rabbi Abraham Skórka shares his thoughts on the celebration of freedom, redemption, and divine mercy that bridge the Christian celebration of Easter and the Jewish celebration of Passover in a video for the Abraham Joshua Heschel Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations at the John Paul Catholic University of Lublin.

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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.

Roses and stained glass in a church.

November 26, 2024

Brian Flanagan Quoted on Synod on Synodality Final Report

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.

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