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In this interview, published by the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy, Senior Research Fellow Judd Birdsall speaks with David Warren to discuss Warren's new report on "Tolerance, Religious Freedom, and Authoritarianism: Implications for U.S. Policy." The report analyzes why many authoritarian states have invested in major initiatives focused on religious tolerance.

In a new Commonweal essay, Massimo Faggioli quotes Senior Fellow Paul Elie's 2004 Candlemas Lecture at Boston College in which Elie describes how contemporary scandals within the Church inform the pilgrimage of U.S. Catholics.

In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Senior Research Fellow E.J. Dionne, Jr., discusses Pope Francis' January interview with the Associated Press, in which the pope called on Catholic bishops who support statutes that punish or discriminate against the LGBTQ community to change their ways.

Writing in a Daily Comment for the New Yorker, Senior Fellow Paul Elie discusses how the ways that Pope Francis' spirit of openness has changed the Vatican and Catholicism are on display following the death of Pope Benedict XVI.