Name: The Nature of Evil: Satan, Hell, and the Rite of Exorcism in the Catholic Church.
Start: 2020-03-11T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2020-03-11T13:30:00-05:00

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February 2020
February 12th, 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

What Good is Happiness? A Dialogue Between Economics & Philosophy

Ida Noyes, Third Floor Theatre 1212 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Presented by the Veritas Forum at the University of Chicago, Cana, Cru, Graduate Christian Fellowship, Holy Trinity Church, InterVarsity, Living Hope Church, The Lumen Christi Institute, MakeNew, the Calvert House Catholic Center, the Catholic Students Association, and the Saint Thomas More Society. From pop psychology to legal annals, the pursuit of happiness individually and collectively remains a persistent concern of our culture. Yet, the very concept is fractured. What is happiness? Is it a good among many? A feeling? A commodity? Is it simply a matter of preference fulfillment or is caught up in the more arduous task of self-perfection and...
February 13th, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Flannery O’Connor and the Vision of Grace

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

Flannery O’Connor is one of the most celebrated American fiction writers. Yet she has often been misunderstood by the very critics who praise her. O’Connor was sometimes called a hillbilly nihilist, but she responded that she was simply “a hillbilly Thomist.” In this talk, Dr. Frey explores the action of divine grace in the short stories of O’Connor, and how her vision of grace is inspired by the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. Prof. Frey also gave a talk on What Good is Happiness? at the University of Chicago on February 12, 2020, and led a lunch discussion for students and faculty...
February 14th, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Iris Murdoch on Philosophy and Literature

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

This luncheon seminar for students and faculty examined essays by Dame Iris Murdoch on literature, philosophy, morality, virtue, and the concept good. The focus of discussion centered on why Murdoch thinks truth, understood as a clear vision of reality, is the fundamental goal of literature, philosophy, and virtue. Iris Murdoch studied at Oxford and Cambridge (where she studied with Wittgenstein) and was close friends with the philosophers Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot. Murdoch was for many years a fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford, where she taught philosophy. In addition to two substantial books of philosophical essays, she also wrote twenty-six novels. Her...
February 15th, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Creation: Artistic & Divine

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

This event was open to high school students, parents, and teachers. Co-sponsored by Mundelein Seminary, the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office, Relevant Radio, and the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. This program was made possible in part by a gift from the Paluch Family Foundation and a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. Follow us on Instagram for updates about the event. Physics tells us how the universe is ordered, but can it tell us why? How are the laws of physics like a baseball rulebook? And why should we expect the universe...
February 22nd, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Does Prayer Bring Happiness?

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

This event was open to university students and faculty, and was co-sponsored by Calvert House. On the evening of February 22nd, students and faculty joined together for an edifying evening of prayer, dinner, and conversation with the Benedictine monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross on the south side of Chicago. Their evening program consisted of praying the Divine Office (Vespers and Compline), having dinner, and discussing practices of prayer and how these may grow into contemplation that crowns the happy life. Following monastic tradition of oral reading during meals, selections of a patristic text were read during dinner, before being opened with...
February 27th, 2020 @ 6:15 pm

Pope, Councils, Bishops, and Synods: Insights from St. Dominic and the Order of Preachers for Governance in the Church

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

The malfeasance of bishops and priests has led to a call for reform of the institution of the Church. There is a peril in this: the Church is animated and governed by the Holy Spirit and an overemphasis upon the institutional structure of the Church runs the risk of stifling the Spirit. As a path for reform, Pope Francis is building on Paul VI and John Paul II and has emphasized synodality—a mode of consultative governance which emphasizes the communion of all of the members of the Church. In their polities, religious orders have institutionalized and structured themselves around particular gifts of...
February 29th, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Master Class on Yves Congar’s “True and False Reform in the Church”

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

This program was open to students, faculty, and staff. Is a reform of the church really possible? Yves Congar’s True and False Reform (1950), although initially restricted by the Holy See, became an instrumental text in setting the stage for the Second Vatican Council, and remained one of the most important theological works of the 20th century. Pope John XXIII initially described the goals of the council in terms that reflected Congar's description of authentic reform: reform that penetrates to the heart of doctrine as a message of salvation for the whole of humanity, that retrieves the meaning of prophecy in...
February 29th, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Is it Rational to Believe in Miracles? A Discussion of David Hume’s Argument Against Believing in Miracles

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

Can one be rational and also believe in miracles? The philosophers of the Enlightenment held that it was impossible for the laws of nature to allow such ruptures: to believe in miracles was to be de-facto irrational. Voltaire said that a miracle was a "contradiction in terms," and Thomas Jefferson famously cut all the miracles out of his Gospels with a razor. David Hume presented a famous argument against the rationality of believing in miracles in his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Chapter 10). Over dinner on Saturday evening, Dr. Jason Cather (University of Chicago) will lead a discussion on Hume’s argument. Does it...
March 2020
March 3rd, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Winter Non-Credit Course, “Saint Paul: The Life and Letters of the Apostle to the Nations”

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. Who was Paul and what was his 'good news'? What does he mean by faith or by “principalities and powers”? After Jesus himself, perhaps no Christian personality has evoked such admiration, so much controversy, and so many questions. This course will examine the life and thought of the Apostle Paul through focused presentations on several of his letters. The first presentation...
March 4th, 2020 @ 7:30 pm

Synodality in the Era of Pope Francis: Principles and Possibilities for Ministry in an Increasingly Hispanic Church

Pope Francis’ pontificate continues to signal a particular way of being church for our day, building upon the vision of the Second Vatican Council as well as the energy of Latin American Catholicism. Hispanic ministry in the United States for decades, in close dialogue with the Council and the richness of Latin American theological reflection, has embodied major elements of what today we would call a synodal outlook. This workshop explores key dynamics that identify Catholic Hispanic ministry while proposing models of ministerial action for the rest of the church in the U.S. rooted in the particularity of the Hispanic...
March 5th, 2020 @ 8:00 pm

American Catholic Contours and Detours in a Fifty-Percent Hispanic/Latino Church

Social Sciences, Room 122 1126 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and Open to the Public The familiar expression “American Catholicism” often evokes mainly the presence and heritage of Euro-American Catholics and how this group defines religion, culture and politics in our nation. Though narrow and de facto blind to the contributions of many other groups that have been central to defining the American Catholic experience, this perception finds its ultimate challenge in the fact that nearly 50 percent of Catholics in the U.S. today are Hispanic/Latino. In this lecture Ospino explores key implications for church and society of being American Catholic in a largely Hispanic/Latino church. The lecture proposes a...
March 11th, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Nature of Evil: Satan, Hell, and the Rite of Exorcism in the Catholic Church.

Link to the event: https://zoom.us/j/393866028 The conversation will start promptly at 12 pm today. The Lumen Christi Institute is sponsoring a moderated dialogue, organized by our partners at Catholics at Booth, on “The Nature of Evil: Satan, Hell, and the Rite of Exorcism in the Catholic Church,” with Msgr. Jeffrey S, Grob, J.C.D/Ph.D, an expert in the Rite of Exorcism for the Archdiocese of Chicago. University policies surrounding COVID-19 precautions have required the cancellation of the in-person event. However, it will be live-streamed. You can access the live video through the link above (livestream is free; you may however be prompted to install zoom....

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Creation: Artistic & Divine

Does Prayer Bring Happiness?

Pope, Councils, Bishops, and Synods: Insights from St. Dominic and the Order of Preachers for Governance in the Church

Master Class on Yves Congar’s “True and False Reform in the Church”

Is it Rational to Believe in Miracles? A Discussion of David Hume’s Argument Against Believing in Miracles

Winter Non-Credit Course, “Saint Paul: The Life and Letters of the Apostle to the Nations”

Synodality in the Era of Pope Francis: Principles and Possibilities for Ministry in an Increasingly Hispanic Church

American Catholic Contours and Detours in a Fifty-Percent Hispanic/Latino Church

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