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Non-Credit Course | The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church: Doors to the Sacred

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

REGISTER HERE This event is in-person only. Intended for university students, faculty, and staff. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. The Catholic Faith is profoundly sacramental. The Church recognizes seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, […]

Viewing of Martin Scorsese’s Silence

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

This event is co-produced by the Critical Understanding of Liturgies & Traditions (CULT), a student RSO, and the Lumen Christi Institute, the home for the Catholic intellectual tradition at the University of Chicago. The movie will be screened at Gavin House (1220 E 58th St), directly across from the Booth School of Business. This event […]

Dubliners Graduate Reading Group

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Rose Johnson at rodojo23@uchicago.edu. Books and drinks will be provided.  What do choice and responsibility look like for the modern person? How much are individuals determined by their families, their societies, and […]

American Gothic Graduate Reading Group

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Sam Landon at snlandontn@gmail.com. Books, lunch, and beverages will be provided.  Fear. Rot. The inescapability of the past. These and more are the themes of Gothic literature. Join us Mondays from […]

The Quandaries of Biotechnology: Theory and Practice

BSLC 115 924 E 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

This event is free and open to the public. This event is cosponsored by The Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago, and The Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. How are new developments between biotechnology and big data including gene editing, brain-computer interfacing, and artificial […]

Grief, Suffering, and “The Art of Dying” in a Plague: Cyprian’s De Mortalitate

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

Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. Reception will follow.  This event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the […]

Magis Lecture | Do We Know More than the Apostles? Or, Do Doctrines Develop?

Loyola Academy McGrath Family Performing Arts Center 3455 Illinois Rd, Wilmette, IL

5:00 Mass  | 5:45 Drinks & Hors d’Oeuvres  | 6:30 Lecture  | 7:15 End Co-presented by Loyola Academy.  Free and open to the public. Registration required. For questions, please contact Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org. Everyone realizes that some aspects of the Church have changed in the half-century since the Second Vatican Council. But has Catholic teaching […]

Brideshead Revisited Graduate Reading Group

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Jack Drury at jackdrury@uchicago.edu. Books and drinks will be provided.  What do choice and responsibility look like for the modern person? How much are individuals determined by their families, their societies, and […]

Dante the Theologian: Ken Woodward Interviews Denys Turner

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

12:00 Welcome, Blessing, Lunch is Served   |   12:30 Interview   |   1:30 End  REGISTRATION OPENS ON MARCH 1 The dress code for the University Club can be consulted here, and parking information here. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org. All agree: Dante Alighieri was a great poet. But Denys Turner insists that he was also a […]

Dante and a Poet’s Journey in Hope

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

REGISTER HERE This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. A wine and cheese reception will follow. This event is cosponsored by the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Medieval Studies Workshop. Often praised for its evocative treatment of […]

Poetry Being the Body: Theology in Dante

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current graduate students and faculty. Advanced undergraduates and others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.  The poet plays a crucial role […]