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April 21, 2025
Following the death of Pope Francis on April 21, Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie reflects in the New Yorker on the pope's legacy and his quiet reshaping of the papacy. In this piece, along with an earlier article published ahead of Easter, Elie considers how Pope Francis redefined the role of the Catholic Church in the modern age and offers perspective on the future of the Church without his leadership.
April 11, 2025
Rabbi Julia Watts Belser, Berkley Center senior research fellow, has been awarded the 2025 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her book Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole (2023). Belser's insights challenge current exclusionary norms and open new paths for inclusive theology.
April 10, 2025
On April 10, Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova delivered the keynote address at the conference "Catholic Modernity in the Americas: Land, Culture, Politics," hosted by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.
April 5, 2025
Berkley Center Senior Fellow Becky Yang Hsu recently appeared on the New Books Network Podcast to discuss her latest edited volume, The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China (2024). In the episode Hsu highlights the role of informal social ties and family networks in community formation in China.
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May 16, 2025
The application for the 2025-2026 cohort of the Women Faith Leaders Fellowship is open to Catholic sisters from Sub-Saharan Africa who are actively engaged in religious and community service. The fellowship seeks applicants dedicated to the development of their communities and the empowerment of women and girls, in service to the common good.
May 15, 2025
Graduate Fellow Nigel Li (G'25) gives his personal story as a Georgetown student who discovered an interest in international security and nuclear arms control through his classes and interactions with faculty and fellow students.
May 9, 2025
In a recent U.S. Catholic article, Rev. Gerard J. McGlone, S.J., a research fellow at the Berkley Center, called for deeper structural reforms in the Catholic Church's response to clergy sexual abuse.
May 8, 2025
Berkley Center Research Fellow Brian Flanagan was quoted in a recent New York Times article, expressing hope that the new pope's remarks signal his openness to dialogue with LGBTQ Catholics.
