Name: CANCELLED New Melleray Abbey: A Chapter in the Story of Cistercian Trappist Monks in America
Start: 2019-01-23T18:30:00-06:00
End: 2019-01-23T20:30:00-06:00
Location: Loyola University of Chicago – Water Tower Campus

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October 2018
October 22nd, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm

Faith and Politics: Reflections of a Catholic Legislator

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

Open to current university students and faculty. Lunch will be served. Join the Lumen Christi Institute and the Center for Latin American Studies for a lunch discussion with Ignacio Walker, academic and former Chilean Secretary of State (2004-2006), on his current project entitled "Faith and Politics.” He will share reflections from his experience on negotiating faith commitments as a Catholic politician in a modern, secular, democratic, pluralistic society.
October 24th, 2018 @ 4:30 pm

Can Transcendence be Organized? The Catholic Church Between Universalism and Establishment

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Committee on Social Thought and the Theology Club. If a religion differentiates itself from the culture of specific peoples, states, or empires and represents the ideal of moral universalism and an understanding of transcendence, it cannot evade the problem of self-organization. While this is true of all "post-axial" religions, this lecture restricts itself to the Christian Church and other forms of the social organization of Christians (sect, denomination etc.). A comparison between the Catholic Church and these other forms and an understanding of their interaction in the history of Christianity is...
October 31st, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Georges Lemaître: His Science, Faith, and Why “Hubble’s Law” Ought to be Renamed

Kent Hall, Room 107 1020 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To read an adapted version of Lunine's lecture as an article published by the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life's Church Life Journal, click here. To view photos of the lecture, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Georges Lemaître—a Belgian priest and cosmologist—proposed what came to be known as the “Big Bang” model of the origin of the cosmos. What is less well known is that Lemaître discovered and published Hubble’s...
November 2018
November 1st, 2018 @ 4:30 pm

The Collapse of Lehman Brothers: An Inside Story

Saieh Hall 021 5757 S. University Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of Freidheim's talk, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. This event was cosponsored by Catholics at Booth. What it was like to be inside the executive suite of Lehman Brothers during the financial crisis of 2008? Scott Freidheim—former Lehman Brothers Chief Administrative Officer and Executive Vice President—will offer a first-hand account of what happened in 2008, why Lehman Brothers did not need to fail, and how the fall of Lehman Brothers and great personal financial loss affected his sense of meaning...
November 10th, 2018 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Master Class on “Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson, and the Thomist Renewal in the 20th Century: Academic and Spiritual Approaches”

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

Open to current university students and faculty. PDFs of the assigned readings will be provided for those who register. For the Blessed Paul VI, Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was a master "in the art of thinking and praying". In 1975, Paul VI sent a letter to Etienne Gilson (1884-1978) to thank him for his whole life devoted to the search of truth and wisdom. In "Fides et Ratio" (1998, n.74), Saint John Paul II suggested Maritain and Gilson, among other names, as models of thinkers to reconcile philosophy and theology, reason and the word of God. What are the lessons taught...
November 12th, 2018 @ 5:30 pm

Christian Citizenship: A Paradox?

Classics 110 1010 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the lecture, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. To read Tardivel's lecture in essay form in the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life's Church Life Journal, click here. You can download the event poster here. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the France Chicago Center. Does Christian faith imply a political doctrine such as a Christian political regime? Drawing on Justin, Tertullian, and Augustine, Prof. Tardivel argues that even as Christian citizenship does not refer to a political...
November 15th, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

How Catholics Can Realize the Royal Priesthood of the Laity and Rebuild a Church in Crisis

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the address, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. To read the published version of the address in Commonweal, click here. You can download the event poster here. $30 Student (with ID) / $60 General / $600 Host Committee Registration includes lunch. The Church has long taught that all baptized Christians share in Christ’s royal priesthood, and that we are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,” who should “declare the wonderful deeds of him who...
November 15th, 2018 @ 5:30 pm

The Catholic Church in Crisis: A Panel Discussion

Ida Noyes Hall, Library 1212 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To read Daniels' contribution to this panel discussion in the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life's Church Life Journal, click here. To view photos of the panel, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. You can view and download the poster for the event here. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club and the Catholic Students Association. Since questions of sexual abuse emerged in the Church, and in other institutions, in the 1980s, some dioceses have (including Chicago) demonstrated leadership in dealing...
November 20th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Non-Credit Course on “Faith, Crisis, Christ”

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

6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture This weekly non-credit course is open to current students and faculty. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. The project of fides quaerens intellectum (faith seeking understanding) is not reserved to professional theologians but is the prerogative of every thinking person, and can be especially pressing when the claims of religion—and rationality itself—are viewed with suspicion or contempt. The twentieth century and the first decades of our own have erected formidable systems of skepticism yet also brought into the field notable...
December 2018
December 1st, 2018 @ 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm

“The Mystery of Hope: A Monk’s Reading of Spe Salvi” at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross

The Monastery of the Holy Cross 3111 South Aberdeen St. Chicago, IL 60608, Chicago, IL

Transportation will be provided from Hyde Park. Open to current university students and faculty. Join us for an evening of prayer and conversation with Benedictine monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross on the south side of Chicago. Attendees will participate in prayer of the Divine Office (vespers and compline), and have dinner and discussion with Prior Peter Funk on Benedict XVI’s encyclical on the theological virtue of hope, Spe Salvi. Fr. Peter will emphasize the need for hope in the life of the Church today. More information about the monastery can be found HERE. SCHEDULE 4:15pm Meet at...
January 2019
January 16th, 2019 @ 6:15 pm

What do We Mean When We Speak of Revelation?

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Listen to the lecture as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the lecture, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and The Philosophy of Religions Workshop. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. In this lecture, philosopher Jean-Luc Marion will draw on reflections from his recent book Givenness and Revelation to develop a new concept of revelation. Traditionally, the idea of revelation seems to oppose...
January 23rd, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

CANCELLED New Melleray Abbey: A Chapter in the Story of Cistercian Trappist Monks in America

Loyola University of Chicago - Water Tower Campus Schreiber Center 16 East Pearson Street Chicago, IL 60611, River North, IL

DUE TO WEATHER, DOM MARK SCOTT HAS HAD TO POSTPONE HIS VISIT TO CHICAGO. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Cosponsored by the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago $500 Host Committee (includes 8 tickets) / $40 General / $10 students 5:30pm Hors d'oeuvres reception 6:30pm Talk and Q&A 7:30pm Close Christian monasticism began in the 3rd century when St. Anthony sought God (and battled demons) outside of Alexandria. In a sense, the story of New Melleray Abbey begins there with the “Desert Fathers” and continues through St. Benedict and his Rule (5th century), the Cistercian reform...

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Master Class on “Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson, and the Thomist Renewal in the 20th Century: Academic and Spiritual Approaches”

Christian Citizenship: A Paradox?

How Catholics Can Realize the Royal Priesthood of the Laity and Rebuild a Church in Crisis

The Catholic Church in Crisis: A Panel Discussion

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“The Mystery of Hope: A Monk’s Reading of Spe Salvi” at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross

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