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October 4, 2023
Senior Research Fellow Julia Watts Belser was featured in Tablet magazine to discuss her new book Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole (2023) and how she uses Jewish texts to contextualize and craft new conversations on disability.
September 28, 2023
Writing a Daily Comment for the New Yorker, Senior Fellow Paul Elie discusses the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Dead Man Walking based on Sister Helen Prejean's 1993 book of the same name. The company also performed excerpts at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison about 30 miles north of New York City, accompanied by a chorus of incarcerated men.
September 27, 2023
As a product of the Berkley Center's Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power project, this volume edited by Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville explores how states across multiple regions and a diverse range of faith traditions incorporate religion as an aspect of their foreign policy, with case studies that illuminate various cross-national patterns as well as continuities and discontinuities.
September 24, 2023
Writing for Time, Senior Research Fellow Julia Watts Belser reflects on prayers during Yom Kippur and contends that in order to challenge ableism, we have to teach ourselves to notice normativity and recognize the way it’s embedded in the very fabric of our lives.
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May 16, 2025
The application for the 2025-2026 cohort of the Women Faith Leaders Fellowship is open to Catholic sisters from Sub-Saharan Africa who are actively engaged in religious and community service. The fellowship seeks applicants dedicated to the development of their communities and the empowerment of women and girls, in service to the common good.
May 15, 2025
Graduate Fellow Nigel Li (G'25) gives his personal story as a Georgetown student who discovered an interest in international security and nuclear arms control through his classes and interactions with faculty and fellow students.
May 9, 2025
In a recent U.S. Catholic article, Rev. Gerard J. McGlone, S.J., a research fellow at the Berkley Center, called for deeper structural reforms in the Catholic Church's response to clergy sexual abuse.
May 8, 2025
Berkley Center Research Fellow Brian Flanagan was quoted in a recent New York Times article, expressing hope that the new pope's remarks signal his openness to dialogue with LGBTQ Catholics.
