Katherine Marshall reflects on a recent dialogue on AI and Catholic social thought held by Georgetown University's Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and what further questions arise from such discussions.
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Faith in Action
On Faith in Action Berkley Center Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall tracks the faith-inspired activities of people and institutions across the globe and across religious traditions, with a focus on development and humanitarian issues. Earlier posts were originally published by the Huffington Post or…
Recent Blog Posts
September 17, 2026
Ending Poverty? What Freshmen Are Teaching Me
Katherine Marshall reflects on her Georgetown University freshman seminar on poverty, drawing on students' writing about hardship, inequality, dignity, and the limits of conventional measures of poverty.
September 15, 2026
“Family Values”: A Surprisingly and Sadly Contested Space
Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center senior fellow, discusses the evolution of cooperation and policy on "family values" within the international affairs space.
Faith in Development
Faith-inspired organizations and religious leaders often work in tandem with secular global development practitioners, with similar motivations to fight poverty and alleviate suffering. At the same time, many development practitioners work with faith actors engaged in the community. This blog…
Recent Blog Posts
Sarah Thompson reflects on the current religious debates surrounding the implementation of a human milk bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Thompson considers potential ways to offer more inclusive milk-sharing practices in Muslim-majority communities and elsewhere.
September 13, 2016
How do religious factors affect Senegal’s development agendas?
The Berkley Center at Georgetown University and the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) presented the findings of their two-year effort to “map” the intersections of development and religious…
February 22, 2016
Women Countering Violent Extremism: Under the Radar?
Religious literacy has taken on new importance for security
and peace efforts focused on countering violent extremism. Groups such as Boko
Haram, Al-Shabaab, and ISIS use Islamic rhetoric to recruit…