Released in October 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the encyclical Fratelli Tutti ("Brothers and Sisters All") marked an important juncture in the development of Catholic social thought. Pope Francis' call for human fraternity, social friendship, and a culture of encounter built on the teaching of his predecessors, adapting the tradition to the challenges...

Lucy Beckett’s A Postcard from the Volcano: A Novel of Pre-War Germany (2009) is a great intellectual novel situated in a time of massive of geopolitical changes. Set in what was then Germany and is now Poland (mostly) between 1914 and 1939, young European intellectuals and artists—Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, some religious, some atheist, friends and sometimes...

These online panel discussions will take place at 4pm on a Wednesday once a month, but the topics are decided according to world events and announced close to the date of the month’s panel. Recordings are available on YouTube via the Global Georgetown channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalGeorgetown/videos.  For more details about this series see: https://global.georgetown.edu/series/free-speech-at-the-crossroads-international-dialogues. This discussion is...

The dominant voices in early Western encounters with Buddhism adapted the religion to their own purposes: romanticism, esotericism, an emphasis on scientific religion (at the cost of the history of Catholicism), and a form of social capital. Even those who were ordained as Buddhist monks seemed to look more to their Western audience back home...