Berkley Center

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.

In "Faith Alive!," a weekly catechetical series from Catholic News Service, Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., describes how the condemnation of deterrence is the clear teaching of Pope Francis and concludes that the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the right time for American Catholics to adopt the same posture.

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.

Senior Fellow Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., examines the history of Roman Catholic efforts to integrate immigrants into U.S. society and suggests ways to strengthen Catholic action on the integration of refugees and migrants in this article, published by The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.