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Gerard Mannion

August 20, 2018

Why It Is Time for All U.S. Bishops to Resign

Senior Research Fellow Gerard Mannion writes in TIME magazine that recent revelations about the Catholic Church's handling of clerical sexual abuse highlight a crisis of moral corrosion and corruption embedded into the Church that requires radical action.

Peter Mandaville

August 13, 2018

The Muslim Brotherhood and American Muslims

In a new podcast Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville and Dr. Kamran Bokhari of the Center for Global Policy discuss how concerns about the Muslim Brotherhood have affected policies and conversations about Islam in the United States.

Thomas Banchoff at lecturn in Gaston Hall

July 31, 2018

Banchoff Co-Chairs Global Jesuit Task Force

Founding Director and Senior Fellow Thomas Banchoff co-chaired a Task Force on Civic and Political Leadership Formation that presented its findings at a July 2018 global gathering in Bilbao, Spain, which also marked the founding of the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU). The Task Force Report recommended four areas for collaboration across over 200 colleges and universities in the Jesuit global network: the formation of future leaders and citizens through curricular innovation; stepped-up efforts to address global challenges through problem-based research; structured dialogue with civic and political leaders; and the development of the model of the university as a "proyecto social."

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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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