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Catholic Lawyers Guild Speaker Series | Luncheon with Sr. Helen Prejean

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL
Sr. Helen Prajean, CSJ, Congregation of St. Joseph

Registration required. This event is presented by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago and co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Hank Center of Loyola University Chicago. To find out more, visit https://www.clgchicago.org/events. Sister Helen Prejean, who is known around the world for her tireless work against the death penalty, will be joining Catholic Lawyers Guild this Spring for a community event. Sr. Helen has been instrumental in sparking national dialogue on capital punishment and in shaping the Catholic Church’s vigorous opposition to all executions. We look forward to welcoming her and invite you to join us for what is...

Lust, Friendship, and Eternity in the Epic of Gilgamesh

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
Daniel Wasserman-Soler, Lumen Christi Institute

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. All registrants will be provided with a free copy of the text. The Epic of Gilgamesh has been called the oldest surviving book in the history of Earth. Originating thousands of years ago, the story continues to offer profound insights for modern readers about essential human desires for love, power, and everlasting life. Whether you are encountering the book for the first time or re-visiting it, the tale of Gilgamesh promises to teach you...

Graduate Reading Group on “The Short Stories of Tolstoy”

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL

Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact nbeacom@uchicago.edu. Books, food, and beverages will be provided.  Does life have a meaning in the face of unavoidable suffering and impending death? What does it mean to be good, to be authentic, to follow one's conscience? Questions like these, which still knock at our hearts and minds today, are at the heart of the writing of Leo Tolstoy, widely considered one of the greatest novelists in the history of literature. In this reading group, we’ll read through...

Retribution and St. Thomas Aquinas’s Teaching on Justice

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
Stephen Brock, University of Chicago

Open to current students and faculty. This event is co-sponsored by the St. Thomas More Society at the University of Chicago Law School. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  Thomas Aquinas assigns two functions to punishment, retributive and medicinal. He sees the retributive function as the primary one, pertaining to the very idea of punishment, and it will be the focus of this master class. The aim will...

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The Vocation of a Theologian: The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET
Tracey Rowland, University of Notre Dame (Australia) | Fr. Thomas Esposito, O.Cist., University of Dallas | Russell Hittinger, Catholic University of America

Copresented with The Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture, First Things, and The Portsmouth Institute for Faith and Culture. This online-only event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. For more information, please contact info@lumenchristi.org From his role as a key peritus at the Second Vatican Council, a professor in Germany, to his tenure as prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, Joseph Ratzinger was a part of almost every Catholic theological conversation in the latter half of the 20th century. As pope, he brought his lifetime of learning to bear on his preaching, encyclicals,...

Catholic Culture Series on “A Catholic Vision of the Person and the World”

Ruth Lake Country Club 6200 South Madison Street, Hinsdale, IL

The Lumen Christi Institute's West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2023 with a monthly series on the theme of "A Catholic Vision of the Person and the World." REGISTER HERE THEME | In a 1965 address to the United Nations General Assembly, Pope Paul VI described the Catholic Church as “an expert in humanity.”  The Church could teach the U.N. because the Church understood human hearts and human institutions. Bishop Robert Barron has explained the pope’s words in the following manner: "The Church has two thousand years of watching the human condition unfold – two thousand years of saints and sinners,...

Lunch Discussion with Sally Blount: “Faith, Markets, and Meaning”

Booth School of Business 5807 S Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL
Sally Blount, Catholic Charities

This event is co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and Catholics at Booth. Registration required. Open to students and faculty only. Email m.lechevallier@lumenchristi.org to inquire about registration. According to the Edelman Trust Barometer, business firms have become the only “trusted” social Institution. Simultaneously, there has been a growing drumbeat around corporate “purpose” over the last 10 years – with companies writing ever more expansive purpose statements about how their firms “improve the world,” “make lives more joyful,” and “create meaningful community.” Yet, business leaders have little training in moral philosophy or religion; markets systems are not inherently wise, kind, or fair....

Maximus the Confessor Reading Group

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
Rev. Andrew Summerson, University of St. Michael’s College

Mondays, April 17- May 15, 2023 | 4:30- 6:00 PM Open to current students and faculty at the University of Chicago. Copies of the Ambigua will be provided. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. No previous knowledge of the subject-matter required. Non-students interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. Food and beverages will be provided.  Maximus the Confessor (580-662) is considered one of the most speculative and creative theologians from the first millennium of Christianity. Yet, Maximus’s genius is at its most generative in conversation with the past. His largest work, the Ambigua, comments on difficult passages in the works of...

Spring Non-Credit Course | Shame, Suffering, and the Scandal of the Cross

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago, IL
Fr. Peter Bernardi, SJ, Lumen Christi Institute

Tuesdays, March 28-May 16 6:00pm: Dinner 6:30pm: Presentation This event is in-person only. 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 human experiences of suffering, shame, and evil are assaults on our deepest desire for happiness.   The atrocities that darken human history, especially the Holocaust, and disasters like the recent earthquakes in Turkey & Syria call into question the Christian belief in God’s Providence.  Correspondingly, Christ’s public passion and tortured death have always been a scandal...

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Catholic Social Thought in Business Education

Catholic University of America 620 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC 20064, Washington, DC

APPLY HERE We are pleased to announce the third annual seminar on "Business and Catholic Social Thought: A Primer." During the seminar, graduate students and faculty members in business schools will cover foundational principles in Catholic social thought and apply them to their own field of research and teaching. This seminar aims at widening epistemological preconceptions and showing practical implications of Catholic social thought for business in a way that affirms the goodness of business directed toward the common good. Participants will delve into social encyclicals, secondary sources, and relevant business texts that show the path for principled entrepreneurship in...

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Monastic Wisdom Seminar: “The Schola Caritatis”

Our Lady of the Angels Monastery 3365 Monastery Drive Crozet, VA 22932, Crozet, VA

APPLY HERE The Lumen Christi Institute, the St. Anselm Institute and Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, a Trappistine monastery located near Crozet, Virginia are partnering for the first time to organize a retreat that explores the monastic wisdom tradition. The Trappistine Community at Crozet, Virginia lives according to a continual tradition of Christian monasticism with its roots in the Cistercian Tradition. This seminar will offer the possibility of not only learning the guiding principles that foster a good and balanced life according to the monastic tradition, but of putting them into practice, since it is experience alone that leads not only...

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The Trinitarian Theology of Karl Barth

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Kristóf Oltvai, University of Chicago

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.   The enrollment fee for this short course is $95 USD. Because we believe the Catholic Intellectual Tradition should be made available to everyone, a limited number of scholarships are available. Contact info@lumenchristi.org for more details.  This is one of three short courses hosted by the Lumen Christi Institute this summer. If you would like to take a...