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November 13, 2024

Dionne and Wallis Discuss Religion, Politics, and the 2024 U.S. Elections

Senior Research Fellow E.J. Dionne and Research Fellow Jim Wallis will participate in the November 20 event "Religion, Politics, and the 2024 U.S. Elections: What Happened and What Comes Next?" The panel will explore insights on the conservative Christian vote in the 2024 election and examine the role of Christian nationalist networks in election denialism and the January 6 Insurrection.

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November 10, 2024

Paul Elie on Pope Francis, the Cardinals, and “Conclave”

In an essay for the New Yorker, Senior Fellow Paul Elie writes that the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality was nothing like papal gatherings of cinematic lore, but it clearly reflects Francis’s view of what the Catholic Church should be.

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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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November 26, 2024

Brian Flanagan Quoted on Synod on Synodality Final Report

Religion News Service article quotes Research Fellow Brian Flanagan on the impact of Pope Francis' support for the final report from the Synod on Synodality, the Catholic Church's recently concluded three-year consultation process.

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