Berkley Center

Senior Fellow Paul Elie was the featured speaker at the 24th Annual Kennedy Lecture at St. Peter Catholic Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, on January 27. He discussed issues including Pope Francis’ vision for Catholicism, the role of women in the church, Dorothy Day's path to canonization as a saint, and the continued relevance of Thomas Merton.

Writing for America, Joan Rosenhauer quoted Senior Fellow Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J.'s Berkley Forum essay on U.S. Catholic attitudes towards refugees, written as part of the Berkley Center's Religion and the Crisis of Displaced Persons project. Both Hollenbach and Rosenhauer are members of the Culture of Encounter Project Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger.

Senior Fellow José Casanova contributed a chapter entitled "Jesuit Contributions to Global Connectivity and Global Consciousness in the Early Modern Era" to the book Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map (Brill, 2024), edited by Laura Hostetler.

Senior Research Fellow Elisa Massimino participated on a January 31 panel hosted by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security (GIWPS) to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Yazidi genocide. Other panelists included Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad, U.S. Ambassador-At-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack, and GIWPS Executive Director Melanne Verveer.