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Katherine Marshall

October 15, 2021

COVID-19’s Testing of Religious Roles

Writing for RSIS Commentary, Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall explores the complex roles of religion in the COVID-19 pandemic and response, highlighting deep cracks in social cohesion as a major challenge in global development for the years to come.

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October 13, 2021

Jocelyne Cesari Joins Newsweek Expert Forum

Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari joined the Newsweek Expert Forum, an invitation-only professional organization where speakers, authors, and experts share insights and make strategic connections. 

Minaret of the Grand Mosque in Paris

October 6, 2021

Europe as a Secular Power: An Interview with Sarah Wolff

In this interview, published by the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy, Sarah Wolff joins Senior Research Fellow Judd Birdsall to discuss how Europe, as a secular power, engages with Islam in its identity and foreign policy.

Julia Watts Belser

October 4, 2021

The Politics of Risk and Resistance

Senior Research Fellow Julia Watts Belser will deliver the Abraham and Rebecca Solomon and Ida Schwartz Distinguished Lecture on Judaic Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, on October 4, 2021. The lecture will explore gender, disability, and state violence through ancient Jewish story.

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Cardinal Robert McElroy speaking in front of a podium in Copley Formal Lounge

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.

A family prays at a burial site as the sun comes down on a cloudy day

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.

Roses and stained glass in a church.

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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