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Student Lunch with Stephen Barr on “Should a Catholic Scientist Care About the Liberal Arts?”

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

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Cosponsored by Calvert House. Box lunches will be served. Join us at Gavin House, home of the Lumen Christi Institute, for a discussion with physicist Stephen Barr (President, Society of Catholic Scientists) for a conversation on what a Catholic scientist can learn from the study of philosophy, theology, […]

Is the Universe Made for Life? Anthropic Coincidences and Multiverse Ideas

Kersten 120 5720 South Ellis Avenue, Hyde Park, IL

Free and Open to the Public. The late Stephen Hawking wrote, “Our universe and its laws appear to have a design that is both tailor-made to support us and, if we are to exist, leaves little room for alteration.” What lies behind such a claim? And what might explain such a remarkable fact (if it […]

Winter 2022 Undergraduate Reading Group: “Progress is Dead: Nietzsche’s Indictment of Modern Life in The Genealogy of Morals”

“We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers: and with good reason.” The modern world tells us—and we tell ourselves—that we are enlightened and free, but it isn’t true. Our claims to knowledge are just another moral prejudice; our ostensible freedom is disguised slavery.  So contends Friedrich Nietzsche in his On the Genealogy of Morality, where he punctures the self-satisfaction […]

Redeeming Punishment: Catholic Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform

Fluno Center, Auditorium 601 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715, Madison, WI

The Lumen Christi Institute's Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network and the Catholic Social and Political Thought Initiative of the UW-Madison Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy present Catholic Perspectives on Criminal Justice Reform: a Scholarly Colloquium. This three-day public lecture and workshop series gathers a diverse array of legal scholars and ethicists to explore how Catholic […]

Master Class on Newman’s Oxford University Sermons

REGISTER HERE This event will be held online over Zoom. Open to current graduate students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. More info TBA. Fr. Fields will also lead a summer seminar for graduate students on the thought of John Henry Newman at Merton College, Oxford this summer. More information can be […]

The Theologian’s Vocation in the Academy Today: A Master Class for Graduate Students in Theology

Open to current graduate students in theology. Others interested in participating should contact us. A two-part, online master class for graduate students in theology on the vocation of the theologian in the contemporary academy. Dates: January 15 & February 12 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CST via Zoom Overview: What is the vocation of the Catholic theologian […]

Master Class on “For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. Copies of the book will be available for registrants. Students and faculty are invited to join us for a seminar on For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church with two of the document's drafters, Profs. Perry […]

Master Class on “Catholic Social Teaching and the Church-State Problem”

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Copies of the assigned readigns will be provided. This virtual master class will take place on Zoom.  Readings The Teachings of Modern Roman Catholicism: On Law, Politics and Human Nature, Eds. John Witte and Frank Alexander (Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 1-75 The Syllabus of Errors, Pope Pius IX, […]

Walker Percy on the Pursuit of Happiness in Apocalyptic Times

This virtual event is free and open to the public. This virtual event will be livestreamed on Zoom. For more information about the in person event, please contact us. The in-person event will take place at Ruth Lake Country Club in Hinsdale, Illinois. In Walker Percy's novel, Love in the Ruins, the narrator, a wealthy and successful denizen of American […]

Lunch Discussion on “Walker Percy: Philosopher, Novelist, Catholic”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in joining should contact us. Lunch will be served. Join us for a lunch discussion with Prof. Jennifer Frey on the the work of novelist Walker Percy. Suggested readings from Signposts in a Strange Land "Naming and Being" (pp 130-138)  "Physician as Novelist" (pp 191-196)  "Why are you […]

Catholic Culture Series on “Catholic Literary Heritage”

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

The Lumen Christi Institute's West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2021-22 with a monthly series on the theme of Catholic literary heritage. We will survey the history of literature written by Catholics from the early middle ages to the late twentieth century. What is Catholic literature? What is our Catholic literary heritage? St. John […]