Berkley Center

Vatican leaders and scholars met earlier this week in Rome to explore the future of intercultural and interreligious dialogue at a conference co-sponsored by Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica.

This article overviews the work of the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion in International Affairs. The Berkley Center has long appreciated the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation, which recently provided a three-year grant to support the center's Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy.

Senior Fellow Paul Elie and author Kaya Oakes spoke on the Commonweal Podcast, where the pair discussed a collection of stories on Catholic religious communities that they organized for the November 2021 edition of Commonweal. The pair spoke with Dominic Preziosi, editor of the magazine.

In this article for Commonweal, Senior Fellow Paul Elie interviews Paola Piscitelli and Andrea Bartoli, two leaders of the Community of Sant’Egidio in the United States. The interview explores the past, present, and future of the Community as a Catholic lay movement.