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Judd Birdsall

September 16, 2024

JLI Spotlights G20 Interfaith Forum Panel Featuring Judd Birdsall

Writing for the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities (JLI), Maurice Boem reflects on the August 2024 G20 Interfaith Forum in Brazil, including a panel on “Crossing Bridges Among Sectors and Institutions" featuring Berkley Center Senior Fellow Judd Birdsall.

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September 6, 2024

Amy Uelmen on the Practice of Listening and Humanistic Education Today

Senior Research Fellow Amy Uelmen, director for mission and ministry at Georgetown Law, spoke with Rev. Thomas Flowers, S.J., about the need for faculty to model genuine listening in order to cultivate critical thinking and empathy in students. Their conversation was published in Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education.

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January 6, 2025

Georgetown Welcomes Cardinal Robert McElroy as New Archbishop of Washington

Over the past decade, McElroy has visited Georgetown and engaged with events hosted by the Berkley Center and the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. He also contributed a chapter to the Georgetown University Press book A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament, co-edited by the late Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., then a Berkley Center senior fellow.

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December 13, 2024

Student Research on Religion and COVID-19 in Sri Lanka

In "The Right to Bury Their Dead," Minahil Mahmud (SFS'25) examines the challenges faced by the Muslim community in Sri Lanka when the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa mandated in April 2020 that all victims of COVID-19 would be cremated, irrespective of their religious beliefs.

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November 26, 2024

Brian Flanagan Quoted on Synod on Synodality Final Report

Religion News Service article quotes Research Fellow Brian Flanagan on the impact of Pope Francis' support for the final report from the Synod on Synodality, the Catholic Church's recently concluded three-year consultation process.

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