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April 18, 2010

Katherine Marshall Blogs: Religious wildfires

Don't blame Nigeria's violent conflicts on religion, Nigeria's acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, argued forcefully during a far-ranging discussion last Monday at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. The brutal conflict that took place near the city of Jos last month (where as many as 500 people died) reflects tensions between longtime residents and recent settlers, plus economic misery, not a clash between Christianity and Islam...

April 17, 2010

Michael Kessler Blogs: National day of prayer confusion

The 59th National Day of Prayer is scheduled for May 6. It is supposed to be a day of unity for citizens to come together in reflection. Instead, our deep-seated confusions about the proper boundaries between religious practice and governmental power have turned the official recognition into a huge wedge issue...

April 12, 2010

Katherine Marshall Blogs: Vertigo times

The hot spots this week are Kyrgyzstan and Bangkok, but every day brings new reports of riots and unrest somewhere in the world. America has rarely seemed as unsettled as it is today...

April 5, 2010

Katherine Marshall Blogs: Corruption: myths and solutions

Confronting corruption is not a good path to popularity. Sparks flew between Kabul and Washington last week as Hamid Karzai shot back against U.S. officials who admonished him to get serious in that department. A large donor gathering in New York looking to build a new Haiti rarely strayed far from the corruption sore spot...

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February 13, 2025

Tom Gjelton Selected as the Inaugural Sakka Family Religion and International Journalism Fellow

The Berkley Center and Georgetown's Journalism Program in the College of Arts & Sciences is pleased to announce that distinguished journalist Tom Gjelten will join Georgetown as the first Sakka Family Religion and International Journalism Fellow.

February 5, 2025

Rev. Gerard J. McGlone Calls for Victim-Centered Reforms in Anglican Abuse Scandals

Berkley Center Research Fellow Rev. Gerald J. McGlone, S.J., has been quoted in an article by Religion News Service about recent abuse cases within Anglican denominations.

February 4, 2025

Jerome Copulsky Discusses His Book on Podcast

Research Fellow Jerome Copulsky joined Mark Noll and James Patterson on the Law & Liberty Podcast to discuss his new book American Heretics (2024).

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.