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Obama's Christian Humility

February 8, 2015

Obama's Christian Humility

E.J. Dionne, Jr. asks whether those who criticize President Obama’s statements at the National Prayer Breakfast think Christians reduce their credibility by acknowledging their imperfections.
Freedom of the Press and Global Jihad

February 6, 2015

Freedom of the Press and Global Jihad

Jocelyne Cesari argues that Muslim leaders, secular politicians, and lay citizens share a responsibility to combat and overcome the “us versus them” mentality at the core of extremism.
Faith in Vaccines

February 2, 2015

Faith in Vaccines

Katherine Marshall says religious leaders have an important role to play in reaching the most difficult to serve communities and children that are the focus of the next stages of the global immunization campaign.

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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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