8:00 PM ET | 7:00 PM CT | 5:00 PM PT This zoom webinar event is free and open to the public. Presented by Seattle University and The Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network. Nearly fifty years ago, Pope St. Paul VI said, “If you want Peace, work for Justice.” Echoing his words, “No Justice, No Peace” has […]
Fr. Paul Mankowski (1953 – 2020) was a brilliant essayist, a singular wit, and a devoted son of the Church. Born in South Bend, Indiana, he put himself through the University of Chicago while working summers in a steel mill. Called to a vocation with the Society of Jesus, Fr. Paul entered the novitiate in […]
Free and open to the public. Presented by the Loyola University Chicago School of Law and the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network. Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago. A discussion of The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth with author and Professor Kris Henning in conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning author of Locking Up […]
Free and open to the public. Registration for in-person attendance is not required, but requested. Contact us with any questions. Note the time for this event has been changed from 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. This event is cosponsored by the Harvard Catholic Forum. Standard accounts of salvation in both East and West typically do not include […]
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT. Open to current graduate students and University of Chicago Undergraduates. Others who are interested in participating should contact us. Copies of Life in Christ will be provided for registrants. Life in Christ “originates in this life and arises from it. It is perfected, however, in the life to come, when we shall have […]
Open to current students and faculty. Dinner at 6:00 p.m. | Lecture at 6:30 p.m. “One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.” Everyone knows that Sauron made the One Ring, but […]
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT. Open to current graduate students and University of Chicago Undergraduates. Others who are interested in participating should contact us. Copies of "Integral Humanism" from The Collected Works of Jacques Maritain XI (Notre Dame Press, 1996) will be provided for registrants. Integral Humanism (1936) is Maritain’s masterwork at mid-career. Having separated himself from the […]
Open to current students. Presented by Brent House and the Lumen Christi Institute. One often hears of debates about science versus religion, or science’s compatibility with religion, but in the Christian tradition what might it mean to ask whether science plays a part in salvation? There are many possible answers: science can be interpreted as an alternative to grace […]
Cosponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocations Office and the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. You’ve been told since you started school that you need to go away to college. Leave home, get an education, and begin “adulting.” Everyone has a "guide" for the journey: Kaplan, Fiske, US News, Princeton Review, […]
Cosponsored by the Department of Art History. This convening is open to all invitees regardless of vaccination status and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to […]
REGISTER HERE 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. Jesus of Nazareth, a Galilean Jew crucified in a remote corner of the Roman […]
Presented by the Collegium Institute and cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute, America Magazine and the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought. In the ferment of the mid 20th-Century, Catholic writers and artists sought to develop a new, distinctly Catholic, modernity. They navigated the political challenges of fascism, communism, and liberalism. In this event, we look to the […]
