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Saint Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine

October 12, 2018

Ukraine-Russia Tensions Get Religious

Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova comments on Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople's recent decision to grant the Orthodox Church in Ukraine autocephaly — the right to break off its church from its historical place under Russia’s jurisdiction.

Katherine Marshall

October 10, 2018

Katherine Marshall Wins Peacemaker Award

On September 21 Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center senior fellow and executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, received the 2018 Peacemaker Award from the Center for Conflict Resolution at Brigham Young University Law School.

Casanova to Offer Keynote Address

October 3, 2018

Casanova to Offer Keynote Address

On October 4 Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova will offer the opening public keynote on "Early Modern Jesuit Intercultural Encounters and the Globalization of Secularities" at a conference hosted by the University of Leipzig's Multiple Secularities project, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Forum for the Study of the Global Condition.

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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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