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Drawing on his recent book, Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis (2022), John McGreevy, the provost of Notre Dame University, will explore the surprising history of Catholics and democracy in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. This Berkley Center Lecture will address how ideas of representation have circulated from the political […]
Photo: Phil Humnicky In July 2022, Georgetown began announcing plans for the launch of the Global Health Institute. We spoke with two of its founding leaders, John Monahan (C’83, L’87), […]
Alumni leaders Antonio Gracias (SFS’92, MSFS’93) and Sabrina Kuhl Gracias (B’93) have made a $5 million gift through the Gracias Family Foundation to support the academic and personal financial needs of Georgetown students affected by the war in Ukraine.
A conference sponsored by Georgetown University and La Civiltà Cattolica Through the COVID-19 pandemic Pope Francis has powerfully advocated for a culture of encounter to help bridge the divisions that increasingly plague our world. Only when we fully recognize our shared humanity and engage one another with humility, generosity, and patience—from the local to the […]
Public Religions in the COVID-19 World: A Conversation with José Casanova José Casanova is one of the world’s top scholars in the sociology of religion and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center, where his work focuses on globalization, religions, and secularization. His best-known work, Public Religions in the Modern World (1994), has become a modern classic in the field and has been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Arabic, and Turkish. In 2020 and 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic limited social interaction while simultaneously raising enormous societal and economic ...