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Synodality in Perspective: Traditions Past and Present

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

This online symposium series is being organized by the American Cusanus Society, Nova Forum and the Lumen Christi Institute. Additional Cosponsors include Commonweal, America Media, St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought and the Collegium Institute.  Participation and Registration | All are invited to participate. To attend, please register online. Registration links are provided by each session and date below. […]

Synodality Series Session 6 | The Synod of 2023: Process and Prospects

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

Free and open to the public. This online symposium series is being organized by the American Cusanus Society, Nova Forum and the Lumen Christi Institute. Additional Cosponsors include Commonweal, Harvard Catholic Forum, America Media, the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought and the Collegium Institute. About the Series | In light of Pope Francis’ call for global Catholic communities to enter into a two-year process on synodality, this six-part […]

Society, Law, and Virtue: Colloquium in Honor of Russell Hittinger

This is an invite-only colloquium in honor of Russell Hittinger. Hittinger has articulated many of the deepest Augustinian and Thomistic sources of natural law theory, given an influential critique of certain trends in contemporary natural law thinking, and shown how various conceptions of natural law have been embraced or rejected in American political debates since […]

The Saints: How They Save Us and We Save Them

Saint Ignatius College Prep 1076 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL

This event is in-person only. There is no cost to attend.  Please register by Thursday, October 27th. The Lumen Christi Institute, St. Ignatius College Prep, and The Bollandists Society in Belgium invite you to a special evening with Catherine M. Mooney, Associate Professor of Church History at Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry.   For questions, […]

The Contribution of Theology to Rationality: a Conference in Honor of Jean-Luc Marion

Swift Hall 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

This event is co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and organized by the Martin Marty Center. For more information about the speakers, visit https://martycenter.org/events/the-contribution-of-theology-to-rationality This conference is held in honor of Jean-Luc Marion (Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Professor of Catholic Studies and Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology, and Professor in […]

Master Class: “The Power of the Sacred” with Hans Joas

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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 […]

Superheroes, the Void, and Utopia: Reading Alan Moore’s Watchmen at the End of Days

5554 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

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 […]

Faith and Scholarship Integration Seminar

5554 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

  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 […]

Gold Mass for Scientists

Kindlon Chapel - Benedictine University 4th Foor Kindlon Hall 5794 College Rd, Lisle, IL

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 […]