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April 12, 2014

Visions of Peace


Drew Christiansen considers how Pope Francis' theology of peace offers an approach to two very different challenges to peace in our time: ethnic and religious conflicts; and the encounter, or alternately the clash, of civilizations.

March 19, 2014

Faith Fired by Literature

Paul Elie explores the work of Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Dorothy Day, and Thomas Merton during an On Being with Krista Tippett interview.

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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.

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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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