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Heart Speaks to Heart: John Henry Newman on Faith, Reason, and Holiness

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
Austin Walker, Lumen Christi Institute

Registration has been closed (If you would like to be put on a waitlist in case we receive a cancellation, please email mcorona@lumenchristi.org) Each year, the West Suburban Catholic Culture series presents sophisticated yet accessible lectures drawn from the treasure house of the Church's intellectual tradition. These lectures explore contemporary themes and issues by presenting faithful Catholic teaching in a way that avoids the acrimony of the culture wars. As a capstone to the 2023-2024 series on Faith and Reason, the Lumen Christi Institute will hold an intimate dinner-time lecture at its headquarters on the University of Chicago Campus. Associate Director and...

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A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

Ruth Lake Country Club 6200 South Madison Street, Hinsdale, IL
Emily Austin, University of Chicago

The West Suburban Catholic Culture Series Fall 2024 A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century REGISTRATION (Business casual attire encouraged. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org). Schedule: 6:30 p.m. Drinks | 7:00 p.m. Dinner, Lecture, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. End October 16th: Literary Traditions and the Pursuit of Truth: A Culture of Humility Emily Austin (University of Chicago) The challenges of our times can make Christians feel embattled and besieged. But the Catholic intellectual tradition, at its best, equips us to look with openness for the Truth, incarnate in the world around us. In this lecture, Prof. Emily...

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Christian Martyrdom in the Reformation Era: Reflections on Salvation at Stake (1999) after Twenty-Five Years

Saint Ignatius College Prep 1076 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL
Brad Gregory, University of Notre Dame

5:00 p.m. Mass. Lecture & reception to follow Cosponsored by the Bollandist Society, St. Ignatius College Prep. Supported by the Fr. Paul V. Mankowski, S.J., Memorial Fund for Jesuit Scholarship at Lumen Christi. Free and open to the public. Registration required.  In Reformation Europe, several thousand Christian men and women were executed for their religious beliefs. Brad Gregory told their stories and analyzed the implications in Salvation at Stake, his ground-breaking 1999 book comparing how Catholic, Protestant, and Anabaptist martyrs understood themselves. His book has been acclaimed widely and has shaped how many historians now write about religious belief and practice. In this lecture, Prof. Gregory will reflect on...

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Magis Lecture | Technology, Liturgy, and the Work of Human Hands

Loyola Academy McGrath Family Performing Arts Center 3455 Illinois Rd, Wilmette, IL
Jeffrey P. Bishop, Saint Louis University

REGISTER HERE 5:00 Mass  | 5:45 Drinks & Hors d’Oeuvres  | 6:30 Lecture  | 7:15 End Co-presented by Loyola Academy.  Free and open to the public. Registration required. For questions, please contact Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org. Technology always pushes the limits of our thinking and challenges us morally. In this presentation, we will see that our difficulty with evaluating the morality of technology is because technology sits very close to human identity. Human culture just is technology. Technology/culture is produced by us, but it in turn comes to produce human identity. If this is true, what do we make of the...

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Magis Lecture | Faith, Belief, and Knowledge

Saint Ignatius College Prep 1076 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL
Fr. Adam Hincks, SJ, University of Toronto

"Believers are also thinkers: in believing, they think and in thinking, they believe." So said St. Augustine of Hippo, in contrast to our typical assumption that belief and knowledge are opposites, with belief associated with religious faith and knowledge with scientific thinking. In actual practice, though, there are many of instances of belief in science and many claims of knowledge in religion. In this talk Fr. Adam Hincks, S.J. (University of Toronto) will present knowledge and belief as interlocking rational activities and explore how they relate to religious faith.

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CANCELLED FEBRUARY 27th: A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

Butterfield Country Club 2800 Midwest Rd, Oak Brook, IL, United States

As the Church has faced struggles in recent years, Pope Francis has repeatedly emphasized the role that journalists can play in the reform and renewal of the Church. But the mission of Catholics journalists is not always clear: they face the prophetic call of truth, and, at the same time, the common Christian vocation of the Great Commission. Can those work together? Can journalism be a form of evangelization? And can the Catholic Church teach the press something about the vocation of truth-telling in a polarized world? Reflecting on the work of Catholic journalism amid the Church's challenges, Pillar editor JD Flynn considers those questions.

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The Prince and Father of Music: Palestrina at 500

Loyola Academy McGrath Family Performing Arts Center 3455 Illinois Rd, Wilmette, IL
Schola Antiqua of Chicago, Artists-in-Residence

REGISTER HERE The quincentennial of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is an occasion to recognize the outstanding legacy of this talented musician not only in realm of sacred music but also in the history of composition more broadly. In an 80-minute concert presentation without intermission, Schola Antiqua explores an array of Palestrina’s sacred choral works, ranging from hymn and psalm settings to motets and spiritual madrigals. In-concert commentary illuminates Palestrina’s central role as conservator of Catholic plainchant and the ‘perfect art’ of imitative counterpoint. Schedule Forthcoming