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Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie writes in the New Yorker about the Catholic Church's efforts to deal with the toxic legacy of priestly sexual abuse by means of independent reconciliation-and-compensation programs and asks "Is the Church today essentially outsourcing a reckoning with its past?"

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Berkley Center Director Shaun Casey provides insight for a Deseret News article about the way the U.S. State Department handles religious freedom issues, based on his experience as U.S. special representative for religion and global affairs from 2013 to 2017.

Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie spoke with the Religion and Ethics Report, part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National, about the system under which Catholic dioceses in New York City have paid clergy sexual abuse survivors more than $200 million. Elie first detailed the process in a New Yorker article.

Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville is quoted in a Business Insider India article examining why al-Baghdadi, the elusive leader of the Islamic State terrorist group, decided to show his face in a new video in an attempt to capitalize on the devastating Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka.