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Do Not Harden Your Hearts

December 9, 2015

Do Not Harden Your Hearts

Fr. Drew Christiansen, S.J. says the United States should not stigmatize Syrian refugees for moral and humanitarian and strategic reasons.
Honoring German Chancellor Angela Merkel

December 4, 2015

Honoring German Chancellor Angela Merkel

José Casanova spoke of the importance of religious pluralism in Europe at an awards ceremony for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, winner of the 2015 Abraham Geiger Award in Berlin.
Countering the Islam vs. the West Paradigm

December 3, 2015

Countering the Islam vs. the West Paradigm

Jocelyne Cesari argues that the gap between the social and political reality of Islam and the construction of Islam as the enemy reveals a lack of symbolic integration​ of Muslims into the shared memory of countries in the West.

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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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