Name: 2021 Newman Forum Summer Institute
Start: 2021-07-08T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2021-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
Location: University of Saint Mary of the Lake

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May 2021
May 11th, 2021 @ 7:00 pm

Beauty and Justice in the City: the Restoration of St. Adalbert’s, in Pilsen

Free and open to the public. This event was held online through Zoom and live-streamed to YouTube. This event is part of a webinar series on Hispanic Theology. This event and series are made possible by a generous grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. Latinx Theology has always had a dual focus on the beauty of the symbols of Popular Catholicism and the cry of the poor in urban settings. In this session, one of the premier Latina voices on beauty and justice, Dr. Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, will have a discussion with a long-time community activist in Chicago about the application of this dyad to...
May 12th, 2021 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

West Suburban Catholic Culture Series on “The Liturgy”

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

REGISTER HERE FOR THE JUNE 9 PRACTICUM In 1918, the German priest Romano Guardini lamented that “the lack of fruitful and lofty culture causes spiritual life to grow numbed and narrow.” The remedy was that “prayer must be simple, wholesome, and powerful,” while also being “rich in ideas and powerful images, and speak a developed but restrained language.” Guardini concluded that this “is precisely the way in which the prayer of the liturgy has been formed.” The events of recent months have made us acutely aware of what we lose when the Church’s rites, ceremonies, and corporate worship (the liturgy) are...
May 15th, 2021 @ 2:00 pm

From 92 Pages to More Than 60,000: How the Bollandists Created the “Science of the Saints”

Free and Open to the Public. This event is co-presented with the Bollandist Society. 2:00 PM CDT (GMT -5) | 21:00 (Brussels) For many centuries the Church has been venerating the saints. During Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, thousands of Lives have been written in Greek, in Latin and in the languages of the Christian East. Very soon wonderful and imaginary elements were mixed with historical ones, creating “legends”. If the awareness appeared quite early that all Lives of saints were not equally trustworthy, it is only at the beginning of the 17th century that scientific criteria were applied for the first time to...
May 18th, 2021 @ 7:00 pm

Latino Christology

This event is part of a webinar series on Hispanic Theology. This event and series are made possible by a generous grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. Two experts on Latinx Christology will share their perspectives on the uniqueness as well as the universality of the Latinx spirituality of the crucified Christ. Beyond the stereotypical and often caricatured “bloody crucifix,” these scholars will lay out their complementary visions of how in the Hispanic Catholic tradition and in daily life today this Hispanic practical theology and cultural reality address the solidarity with the poor, the struggle to be a Church of the poor,...
May 25th, 2021 @ 7:00 pm

The Ethics of Immigration

Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. This event is part of a webinar series on Hispanic Theology. This event and series are made possible by a generous grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. The U.S. Catholic Bishops have lobbied for and spoken eloquently about the need for a comprehensive immigration reform and have done so over the course of multiple administrations. These Latino/a experts in moral theology will not only speak to the fact that this call to action remains unheard, even by some Catholics, but to the question of...
May 27th, 2021 @ 7:00 pm

René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment

Free and open to the public. This event was held online through Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. This event was co-sponsored by Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and America Media. While social media has become a source of meaning and identity formation for many, its dangers have become clear in recent years, from promoting disinformation to algorithm-aided polarization. Despite these dangers, can social media be a medium for the Gospel? Does a model for discipleship within social media exist? René Girard’s theory of mimesis or imitation provides a powerful diagnostic for analyzing aspects of human behavior and culture that contribute...
June 2021
June 1st, 2021 @ 7:00 pm

Future Directions of Hispanic Theology

Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. This event is part of a webinar series on Hispanic Theology. This event and series is made possible by a generous grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. Where do we go from here? Concluding our spring Hispanic Theology Series, Professor Peter Casarella and Dean Michelle Maldonado will discuss the current landscape of Hispanic Theology, considering the most pressing needs and most promising opportunities in the field. Join us for this lively conversation, moderated by Professor Horacio Vela (University of the Incarnate Word). Spring 2021 Hispanic...
June 10th, 2021 @ 12:30 pm

Saint Among the Skyscrapers: The American Afterlife of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini

ONLINE REGISTRATION $10 registration fee for the online event. Registration required. A link to the livestream will be sent to registrants on the day of the event. IN PERSON REGISTRATION You can now register for this in-person event taking place at the University Club of Chicago (76 E. Monroe St.) from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Cosponsored by the University of North Carolina Press. Drawing on the recent book, A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), this lecture will focus on St Frances Cabrini, an Italian missionary...
June 23rd, 2021 @ 7:00 pm

Race and Justice in America

This event is part of the Lumen Christi Institute's Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network. National conversation about racial bias in law enforcement has become increasingly polarized over the last year. Some deny the existence of any widespread discrimination, while others see systemic racism as an inextricable part of American criminal justice, and call for defunding or even abolishing police forces. Professor Brandon Vaidyanathan says that racial bias in the criminal justice system is more complicated. A number of factors, including personal prejudice, laws and policies with racist origins, and broader cultural disparities that reflect the history of American racial discrimination,...
June 27th, 2021 @ 7:30 pm

The Song of Songs in Monastic Interpretation

Free and open to the public. This event was held online through Zoom and live-streamed to YouTube. This event is part of a summer webinar series on Monastic Wisdom. The Song of Songs is the Bible’s treasure-house of love poetry, a cycle of songs sung between a man, a woman, and their friends, lush with the imagery of nature and of intense human longing. In it the name of God nowhere to be seen; believers have always, however, cherished it as a figurative representation of the ideal love between God and humanity; indeed, one of history’s most forceful movements for Christian celibacy –...
July 2021
Seminar

July 4th, 2021 @ 12:00 am - July 10th, 2021 @ 12:00 am

The Thought of John Henry Newman

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

Now in its eighth year, this intensive seminar will examine the achievements of Saint John Henry Newman as a theologian, philosopher, educator, preacher, and writer. Remarkably, in each of these areas Newman produced works that have come to be recognized as classics: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, The Grammar of Assent, The Idea of a University, The Parochial and Plain Sermons, and the Apologia Pro Vita Sua. This seminar will approach Newman’s thought through a critical engagement with these texts. Format: There will be two 2-hour sessions each day. The seminar will include presentations by Fr. Fields and by participants...
Seminar

July 8th, 2021 @ 12:00 am - July 11th, 2021 @ 12:00 am

2021 Newman Forum Summer Institute

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

In-person summer experience for high school students exploring truth, goodness, and beauty at Mundelein Seminary Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students and incoming college freshman only. This seminar is cosponsored by the University of Saint Mary of the Lake at Mundelein Seminary, and the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office. DRIVING QUESTIONS “It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too...” -Aristotle, Metaphysics 982b “The Christian remains the guardian of that metaphysical wonderment which is the point...

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