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What is Wrong with Curiosity? Augustine on Curiosity and the Use and the Abuse of the Intellect in the Confessions

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

What could be wrong with curiosity? "Long live curiosity," proclaims the Museum of Science and Industry, and modernity unanimously praises it as the beginning of intellectual discovery. But, surprisingly, Augustine of Hippo criticizes “curiositas” in his Confessions. Is Augustine’s notion out-moded? Is the pursuit of knowledge adverse to Christian faith? Or could Augustine’s concern about the proper use and the […]

What Good is Happiness? A Dialogue Between Economics & Philosophy

Ida Noyes, Third Floor Theatre 1212 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Presented by the Veritas Forum at the University of Chicago, Cana, Cru, Graduate Christian Fellowship, Holy Trinity Church, InterVarsity, Living Hope Church, The Lumen Christi Institute, MakeNew, the Calvert House Catholic Center, the Catholic Students Association, and the Saint Thomas More Society. From pop psychology to legal annals, the pursuit of happiness individually and collectively remains […]

Flannery O’Connor and the Vision of Grace

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

Flannery O’Connor is one of the most celebrated American fiction writers.  Yet she has often been misunderstood by the very critics who praise her.  O’Connor was sometimes called a hillbilly nihilist, but she responded that she was simply “a hillbilly Thomist.” In this talk, Dr. Frey explores the action of divine grace in the short stories […]

Iris Murdoch on Philosophy and Literature

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

This luncheon seminar for students and faculty examined essays by Dame Iris Murdoch on literature, philosophy, morality, virtue, and the concept good. The focus of discussion centered on why Murdoch thinks truth, understood as a clear vision of reality, is the fundamental goal of literature, philosophy, and virtue. Iris Murdoch studied at Oxford and Cambridge (where she studied […]

Creation: Artistic & Divine

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

This event was open to high school students, parents, and teachers. Co-sponsored by Mundelein Seminary, the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office, Relevant Radio, and the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. This program was made possible in part by a gift from the Paluch Family Foundation and a grant from […]

Does Prayer Bring Happiness?

The Monastery of the Holy Cross 3111 South Aberdeen St. Chicago, IL 60608, Chicago, IL

This event was open to university students and faculty, and was co-sponsored by Calvert House. On the evening of February 22nd, students and faculty joined together for an edifying evening of prayer, dinner, and conversation with the Benedictine monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross on the south side of Chicago. Their evening program consisted of praying […]

Pope, Councils, Bishops, and Synods: Insights from St. Dominic and the Order of Preachers for Governance in the Church

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

The malfeasance of bishops and priests has led to a call for reform of the institution of the Church. There is a peril in this: the Church is animated and governed by the Holy Spirit and an overemphasis upon the institutional structure of the Church runs the risk of stifling the Spirit. As a path for reform, […]

Master Class on Yves Congar’s “True and False Reform in the Church”

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

This program was open to students, faculty, and staff.  Is a reform of the church really possible? Yves Congar’s True and False Reform (1950), although initially restricted by the Holy See, became an instrumental text in setting the stage for the Second Vatican Council, and remained one of the most important theological works of the 20th […]

Is it Rational to Believe in Miracles? A Discussion of David Hume’s Argument Against Believing in Miracles

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

Can one be rational and also believe in miracles? The philosophers of the Enlightenment held that it was impossible for the laws of nature to allow such ruptures: to believe in miracles was to be de-facto irrational.  Voltaire said that a miracle was a "contradiction in terms," and Thomas Jefferson famously cut all the miracles […]

Winter Non-Credit Course, “Saint Paul: The Life and Letters of the Apostle to the Nations”

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

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. Who was Paul and what was his 'good news'? What does he mean by faith or […]

American Catholic Contours and Detours in a Fifty-Percent Hispanic/Latino Church

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

Free and Open to the Public The familiar expression “American Catholicism” often evokes mainly the presence and heritage of Euro-American Catholics and how this group defines religion, culture and politics in our nation. Though narrow and de facto blind to the contributions of many other groups that have been central to defining the American Catholic […]