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July 15, 2020

Nuclear Era That Began in 1945 Poses Moral Questions For Today

Senior Fellow Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., is among the experts quoted in a new Catholic News Service article highlighting concerns that despite significant reductions in nuclear arsenals by the United States and Russia, a new arms race threatens to upend progress in nuclear disarmament made over the last half-century.

Turkish flag flies in front of the Hagia Sophia

July 11, 2020

Erdogan Decrees Hagia Sophia Revert to Mosque

Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari is quoted in the Asia Times about the political strategy behind Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decree that the historic Hagia Sophia be turned back into a mosque.

Shaun Casey at podium in front of American flag

July 6, 2020

Religion and Presidential Politics

On July 22 Berkley Center Director Shaun Casey is leading an exploration of past presidential elections as well as the role of religion in the 2020 presidential election as part of the Summer Scholar Spotlight Series hosted by the Princeton Senior Resource Center.

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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.

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