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Francis, The Anti-Strongman

March 25, 2018

Francis, The Anti-Strongman

Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie evaluates Pope Francis' efforts to unhitch the papacy from the office's authoritarian legacy.

Peter L. Berger: His Biography and His Sociology

March 14, 2018

Peter L. Berger: His Biography and His Sociology

Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova discussed Berger as an "accidental sociologist" at a March 14 conference sponsored by the CUNY Graduate Center Committee for the Study of Religion and the New School for Social Research.

Thinking Together on Global Concerns

March 11, 2018

Thinking Together on Global Concerns

Berkley Center Senior Fellow David Hollenbach, S.J., co-led the inaugural seminar in a project on religion and migration for the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) in Princeton, New Jersey (PDF courtesy of CTI).

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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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