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In an article for Emergence on the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, Senior Fellow Paul Elie traces the literary history of the environmental movement from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring to Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment, covering writers like Bill McKibben, Al Gore, Arundhati Roy, and Elizabeth Kolbert.

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall, with co-authors Susan Hayward and Azza Karam, argues that religion can be part of the problem and solution in the COVID-19 pandemic. Their op-ed, published by Religion News Service, considers how multireligious solidarity can help address exclusion and fear in the wake of the pandemic.

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall contributed insight on religion and COVID-19 to the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy's (TPNRD) annual resource, which helps foreign policy actors understand the intersection of religion and key global issues. Peter Mandaville, a Berkley Center senior research fellow and co-chair of the TPNRD Advisory Council, helped compile the note.

In a Daily Comment for the New Yorker Senior Fellow Paul Elie reflects on the powerful images coming out of Rome in this holy season—and how they convey the vision of a humble, service-oriented Catholicism Pope Francis has proposed all along.