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April 28, 2009

Center Releases Recommendations on Religious Freedom Policy

How should the Obama administration combine the pursuit of American interests with support for religious freedom worldwide? Tom Farr co-authored a series of recommendations that place advancing freedom and human rights within a larger social, economic, and political agenda.

April 20, 2009

New Michael Kessler Blog on Law and Religion

The Center's Michael Kessler has a new blog on the Washington Post's On Faith site, "Just Law and Religion." The blog addresses topical issues at the intersection of religion and politics that have a legal dimension.

April 18, 2009

José Casanova on Challenges to Religious Liberty Rising Out of Globalization at Princeton Conference

In April 2009, José Casanova debated the question "What are the unique and unprecedented challenges which this new force of globalization presents to religious liberty?" at a conference on "Law and Religion: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives" organized by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, in cooperation with sponsoring institutions the Center on Religion and the Constitution of The Witherspoon Institute; the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College; and the Tikvah Project in Jewish Thought, Princeton University.

March 6, 2009

José Casanova on Secularism as an Ideology at New School Conference

Speaking at a March 2009 conference on “The Religious Secular Divide: The US Case,” José Casanova argued that “secularism is an ideology.” He was also co-director of the conference.

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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.