Name: Laudato Si at 5-years: Towards an Ecology of Culture
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November 2020
November 10th, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Thinking Inside and Outside the University: Zena Hitz on the Inner Life

Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and YouTube live-stream. This event is presented by the Lumen Christi Institute Forum on the Church in Higher Education as part of its Liberal Arts Colloquium. This event is cosponsored by The Point magazine, the Saint Benedict Institute, Calvert House Catholic Center, Princeton University Press, and the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage. In a world where efficiency and utility are the standards by which we measure success, how do we appreciate what resists quantification? And at a moment of institutional change and instability for higher education, what...
November 12th, 2020 @ 8:00 pm

Quo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology, a Pastoral Perspective for the 21st Century

Free and open to the public. This event will be presented on Zoom (registration required), as well as through live-stream on YouTube. This event is co-presented with the Godbearer Institute and the Collegium Institute. Metropolitan Borys Gudziak has spent his life committed to Catholic education. He helped to found Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, the only Catholic University between Poland and Japan. The University’s mission was simple: to bring the Christian humanist vision of the Catholic University to Ukraine to heal the wounds inflicted by Soviet oppression. Gudziak was rector of Ukrainian Catholic University until 2012 and became president upon his episcopal ordination....
November 13th, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Master Class on Yves Simon on Natural Law

A FOLLOW UP MASTER CLASS ON PART 2 OF THE BOOK WILL BE HELD ON JANUARY 15. Open to current graduate students. It will take place online on Zoom. Copies of the readings will be provided. Others interested in participating should contact us. Join us for a master class on Yves Simon's The Tradition of Natural Law: A Philosopher's Reflections (Fordham University Press, 1999). You can watch Professor Hittinger's lecture on Part 1 of the book here. ABOUT THE BOOK The tradition of natural law is one of the foundations of Western civilization. At its heart is the conviction that there is an...
November 14th, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 2:30 pm

Human Rights and Human Wrongs: The Catholic History of Human Rights

University of Saint Mary of the Lake 1000 East Maple Avenue Mundelein, IL 60060, Mundelein, IL

Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. This event was made possible by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute, and is cosponsored by the University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Mundelein Seminary, and the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office. You can email Austin Walker or Madison Chastain with any questions or concerns! Online Schedule 9:30 Opening Prayer & Welcome 9:45 1st Lecture 10:20 1st Q&A 10:45 Break 11:00 2nd Lecture 11:35 2nd Q&A 11:45pm Online Breakout Discussion Groups 12:30pm Conclusion What makes something right? What makes something wrong? What is a "right," and why ought it be respected? What happens if two...
November 14th, 2020 @ 1:30 pm

Extraterrestrial Life: The Science and the Theology

A webinar discussion with Jonathan I. Lunine (Cornell University), and Christopher Baglow (University of Notre Dame). This presentation is the second part of the the Steno Lectures: Discussions at the Intersection of Faith and Science, presented by the Society of Catholic Scientists and the Science and Religion Initiative at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. This event is co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. Might Extraterrestrial life exist? Where? How would we search for it? (Do we already have evidence of it?) Could such life have human-level intelligence? If Extraterrestrial intelligent life (or “ETI” life) exists, what would be its theological implications? These...
November 14th, 2020 @ 4:00 pm

COVID-19 and the Worldwide Church

Free and open to the public. This event is organized by the Harvard Catholic Forum, co-presented with the Lumen Christi Institute, and co-sponsored by the Saint Benedict Institute, the Collegium Institute, the Institute for Faith and Culture, the Nova Forum, and St. Paul's University Catholic Center. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to the Harvard Catholic Forum's YouTube page. The pandemic of 2020 has disrupted the sacraments and public worship, scattered communities, and put local churches into new, sometimes strained, relationships with civil authorities. The Church has also been a significant actor in the crisis, offering relief services and...
December 2020
December 1st, 2020 @ 8:00 pm

Friends in Heaven: Edmund Campion and the Martyrs of England & Wales

Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. This event is co-presented with the Bollandist Society and America Media. "The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God; it cannot be withstood." With these bold words Edmund Campion, SJ, communicated to Her Majesty's Privy Council in 1581 the Catholic plan to restore the faith in England. On December 1, the Church celebrates Campion and his fellow martyrs of England and Wales. They did not succeed in restoring the faith, but they did carry out one of the most dangerous...
December 3rd, 2020 @ 8:00 pm

Food Insecurity in the U.S.: Insights from Catholic Social Thought and Economics

7:00 PM CST / 8:00 PM EST Free and open to the public. The event will be held online over Zoom and will be livestreamed on YouTube. This event is co-presented with the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization (CREDO), and is co-sponsored by America Media, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame, the Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO). Food insecurity has become a leading indicator of well-being in the U.S. due to the tens...
December 9th, 2020 @ 8:00 pm

A Catholic Life in the Secular University: A Conversation with George Dennis O’Brien

Cosponsored by Commonweal Magazine, and the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University. This event is presented by the Lumen Christi Institute Forum on the Church in Higher Education as part of its Liberal Arts Colloquium. John F. Kennedy once quipped that a Catholic would be president of the United States before a Catholic would be president of Harvard. As the Catholic president of two secular universities, Dennis O’Brien was a trailblazer. In this interview, O’Brien discusses his long career in higher education as a Catholic, a philosopher, and an administrator, with reflections on the past, present, and future of American higher education....
December 16th, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Is there a Catholic Vote? An Evangelical Vote? Religion, Polls and Presidential Elections

REGISTER HERE Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and YouTube live-stream. This event is cosponsored by America Media and the Institute for Human Ecology. The 2020 presidential race seemed to highlight the central role of religion in the electorate. Democrats spent heavily on campaign ads emphasizing Joe Biden’s Roman Catholicism. President Trump has spent the past four years courting Evangelicals and conservative Catholics. But is there really a religious vote? In this panel, experts will examine the relationship between religion, polls, and presidential elections.
January 2021
January 7th, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

Partners in Charity: St. Louise de Marillac and St. Vincent de Paul

Join us February 13 for the next event in this series on "Pledges of the Saints: the Cult of Relics in the Catholic Tradition." This event is co-presented with the Bollandist Society In this talk, we will examine side by side the lives and legacies of two major saints of French Catholicism's seventeenth-century golden age. Louise de Marillac and Vincent de Paul co-founded the Daughters of Charity, one of the most successful socially-oriented women's congregations in the Church's history, when the Tridentine-era bishops were attempting to enforce strict claustration for women religious. They also collaborated with a wide circle of lay...
January 11th, 2021 @ 5:00 pm

Laudato Si at 5-years: Towards an Ecology of Culture

How do we develop a culture marked by an ethic of ecological awareness? In Laudato Si, Pope Francis called for an ecological conversion to just such a culture. The ecological conversion he envisions entails more than just tinkering with technology or the economy; rather, we must reshape our sense of culture and society. Pope Francis has asked that this year be dedicated to a reflection on the continuing importance of Laudato Si. How does an ecologically aware ethic change the ways we live together, create art, and encounter nature? What kind of culture should we be developing to live out...

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Extraterrestrial Life: The Science and the Theology

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A Catholic Life in the Secular University: A Conversation with George Dennis O’Brien

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