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May 8, 2026

Paul Elie Reflects on the First Anniversary of Pope Leo XIV

In a New Yorker essay, Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie reflects on Robert Prevost's first year as Leo XIV—a year in which the first American pope stepped into history the way John Paul II did when he went to Communist Poland in 1979.

St. Andrew's Church among hillside buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine

May 6, 2026

Religion and the Russian-Ukraine War: A Primer

A new working paper by Denys Brylov and Tetiana Kalenychenko with Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville, published as part of the Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power project, explains why the war between Russia and Ukraine is not religious in origin, though religion figures prominently in several dimensions, including identity formation, social cohesion, and international advocacy.

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Rowan Williams stands at the podium in Gaston Hall with Georgetown leaders seated behind him. Photo by Phil Humnicky.

October 22, 2026

Georgetown Awards Honorary Degree to Rowan Williams, Former Archbishop of Canterbury

On October 20, Georgetown bestowed its highest academic honor on Rev. Rowan Williams, a theologian and the former archbishop of Canterbury, in Gaston Hall. The Berkley Center co-sponsored the event as part of its support for the university’s annual Costan Lecture in Early Christianity, a series directed by Faculty Fellow Julia Lamm that invites leading scholars of early Christianity to campus.

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