Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings. The first 15 registrants will receive free copies of The Power of the Sacred. In the last twenty or thirty years, the co-called secularization thesis has lost much of its plausibility. This thesis means […]
An online interview for high-school students and teachers. What happens when I think? What makes for good thinking? Can I discover "truth," and how would I know when I found it? How should I think about God? What is He like and how would my life change if I knew? To help answer these and […]
Open to current undergraduate students at the University of Chicago. Registration is capped at 20. Students who register after capacity has been reached will be put on a waitlist. Copies of Watchmen will be provided to all participants. Who watches the Watchmen? The President of the United States is a septuagenarian nervously forced to confront an increasingly reactive […]
Open only to current graduate students. Registration required. To register, contact Fr. Peter Bernardi, SJ, at bernardisj@gmail.com. The Lumen Christi Institute will host periodic “integration seminars” at its newly acquired Woodlawn Residence. These seminars will promote discussion and reflection on how to relate one’s Catholic faith to one’s scholarship. Each seminar will feature a Catholic scholar […]
The Lumen Christi Institute is glad to cosponsor a Gold Mass for the Chicago region, organized by the regional chapter of the Society of Catholic Scientists. Mass will be held at 6:00 PM CST on Tuesday, Nov 15, in the Kindlon Chapel (4th floor of Kindlon Hall) at the Benedictine University Lisle campus (5700 College Road, Lisle, Illinois). The celebrant […]
Tuesdays, Oct. 4 - Nov. 15 6:00pm: Dinner 6:30pm: Presentation Intended for university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. “The devout Christian of the future will either be a ‘mystic’ […]
As we celebrate the bicentennial of Gregor Mendel’s birth, a few highlights of his life and legacy illustrate the breadth of his contributions and his genius. Born into poverty, he excelled in education in his youth. He entered the St. Thomas Monastery as an Augustinian friar where he joined an extraordinary community of scholars. At […]
Join scholar Elizabeth Lev and Lumen Christi's resident ensemble Schola Antiqua at the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture for a journey through the Divine Comedy, from Inferno to Paradiso. Featuring art historian, Elizabeth Lev, this event will explore the significance of the world’s most famous epic poem and its author, the illustrious Dante Alighieri. Experience […]
Members of the Society of Catholic Scientists and science students, faculty, and staff are invited to an Advent celebration with the Lumen Christi Institute and the Chicago chapter of the Society of Catholic Scientists. This is a family-friendly event, with food and drink on offer, and a supervised room for kids to work on holiday crafts. Come share […]
The Lumen Christi Institute has designed this two-day seminar to introduce major themes and debates from the Catholic Church's history to a wide online audience. It offers the opportunity to read primary sources in the context of a seminar-style discussion, led by Catholic faculty. St Francis of Assisi was a ‘little poor man’ who casts […]
Intended for university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contact m.lechevallier@lumenchristi.org. Students may assume that studying heresy is the work of apologetics or the work of ancient historians. But heresies played a pivotal role in helping shape the Catholic Church. Further, certain heresies are recurrent. Join for this lunchtime discussion on Ancient Heresies […]
Intended for university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contact m.lechevallier@lumenchristi.org. Students may assume that studying heresy is the work of apologetics or the work of ancient historians. But heresies played a pivotal role in helping shape the Catholic Church. Further, certain heresies are recurrent. Join for this lunchtime discussion on Ancient Heresies […]
