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Cruel But Usual: Solitary Confinement’s Tortured History

Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. Presented by the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network and cosponsored by the Catholic Mobilizing Network. Pope Francis has denounced the use of solitary confinement.  He describes it as “torture” employed under the “pretext of offering greater security […]

Conscience and Human Rights in Thomas Aquinas and Some Predecessors

Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture 1025 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Contact us with any questions. Note the time for this event has been changed from 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. In discussions of the history of the philosophy of human rights, typically a distinction is made between theories that understand rights as objective and those that understand […]

A Life in Service of the Truth: The Legacy of Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ

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

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 […]

Conversation on “The Rage of Innocence”

Loyola University Chicago Law School 25 East Pearson Street, Chicago, IL

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 […]

The Salvific Power of the Inner Life of Christ: The Witness of the Ecumenical Councils

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

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 […]

The Doctrine of Salvation in Nicholas Cabasilas’s “Life in Christ”

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 […]

The Riddle of the Ring: Dark Magic & Spiritual Danger in Tolkien

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

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 […]

Lunch with Dr. Lucas Mix – What Part Does Science Play in Salvation?

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

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 […]

How to Run Away From Home: Preparing for College as a Catholic

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

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, […]

Michelangelo’s Women: Feminine Genius in the Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel

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

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 […]