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The HDS alumna won the 2016 Grawemeyer Award for her book Beholden: Religion, Global Health, and Human Rights.

HDS professor Francis Clooney, S.J. writes in American Magazine that Donald Trump's latest call to exclusion is not only deeply offensive to Muslims, it is an abomination to people of other faith traditions as well.

The love of God is perhaps the most essential element in Judaism—but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling. How...

HDS's Clooney on 'The Study Quran' in Advent.

In January of 1827 on a cold Sunday morning in Washington, DC, more than a thousand people assembled in the Capitol to witness one of the most remarkable events ever to take place in the Hall of Representatives. Harriet Livermore, a celebrated female...

Pope Francis's encyclical brings to mind Pope Paul VI's imperative. In his encyclical on social justice, Paul VI said that if we want peace, we must work for justice. Why? Because peace and justice are interconnected. Pope Francis's encyclical urges that...

Professor Francis Schüssler Fiorenza spoke to the Harvard Gazette about the recent papal encyclical on the environment and whether it offers anything new.

Pope Francis's much-anticipated encyclical on the environment, issued June 18, was received with both relief and concern, as it raised important questions to all of us—Christian or not, Catholic or otherwise. Francis's 184-page document (PDF) had several...

Professor Jonathan L. Walton writes an insightful editorial for the Huffington Post following the tragic shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Ben Ferencz was 27 when he became the chief prosecutor of one of the biggest murder trials in history: the Einsatzgruppen Case, part of the second wave of trials at Nuremberg in the years after the Second World War. He won convictions of all 22 defendants...

Following the sentencing of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., writes that the act of forgiving is deeply rooted in some religious traditions.

News of the United States Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage reached San Francisco early in the morning on June 26. The city was already preparing to celebrate Pride weekend. The news meant that we started the party early. People met on the...