Berkley Center

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.

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.

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."

Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari provides background on the Saudi policy of exporting its doctrine of Islam across the Muslim world for an article on the 1979 attack on Mecca's Grand Mosque.