Our Events

Upcoming

Featured Events

Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Filters

Changing any of the form inputs will cause the list of events to refresh with the filtered results.

Genome Editing with CRISPR: Dignity and Other Faith-Based Considerations

BSLC 109 924 E 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

--- Cosponsored by the Program on Religion and Medicine at the University of Chicago, McCormick Theological Seminary, and the Society of Catholic Scientists. This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. The discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 has revolutionized our ability to edit genomes, the human genome included. How do faith-based ethicists […]

The Making of a Modern Saint: John Henry Newman on Faith and Education in a Secular Age

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

Cosponsored by Mundelein Seminary, the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office, and the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. This program is made possible in part by a gift from the Paluch Family Foundation and a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Follow us on Instagram for updates about the event. […]

Waiting for Jesus in Havana

The family is traditionally held to be the first church. Yet, the Latino Catholic home bears diverse local religious and cultural influences. How does one better understand the tapestry of one’s own religious experience and its relation to the Catholic tradition? Join us in this workshop as Carlos Eire, historian and expert in popular piety, […]

The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila

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

This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. A luncheon talk with Professor Carlos Eire (Yale) on the recent book on the life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever written: The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila. Saint Teresa of Avila’s […]

Symposium on “The Life of Teresa of Avila: A Biography”

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

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the Divinity School, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Medieval Studies Workshop. This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. Copies of The Life of Saint Teresa of […]

Master Class on “The Life of Teresa of Avila”

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

This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is one of the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine.  This text is not really an autobiography at all, despite the fact that it is widely […]

John Henry Newman’s Path to Sainthood

Holy Name Cathedral Auditorium 730 North Wabash Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611, River North, IL

This event was cosponsored by Mundelein Seminary, the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago, the Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University, the Calvert House Catholic Center at the University of Chicago, and the John Paul II Newman Center at UIC. What makes […]

Newman’s Apologetics of the Imagination

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

This event was cosponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies. John Henry Newman famously insisted that "the heart is commonly reached not through the reason, but through the imagination."  As a theologian, apologist, and the 19th century's most famous convert, Newman was keenly attentive to the foundations of religious belief.  His apologetic career is, in some […]

Science and Faith: Non-Overlapping Magisteria?

Faculty House at Columbia University 64 Morningside Drive, New York, NY

REGISTER HERE 5:30 Reception | 6:00pm Discussion Co-sponsored by The Columbia University Seminar on Catholicism, Culture and Modernity, the Columbia Catholic Ministry, and the Society of Catholic Scientists. This programming is made possible by a grant from the Templeton Foundation. A Discussion with Stephen Barr (University of Delaware), Jonathan Lunine (Cornell University), moderated by Carlo Lancellotti (CUNY Staten Island). In reaction to […]

The Human Person in an Age of Biotechnology: A Symposium

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

We are at the very outset of the Age of Biotechnology. This presses anew questions regarding the limits of the human person. What is the human species from the point of view of evolutionary biology? How malleable is this definition? Is there such a thing as a species? How does this compare to philosophical perspectives […]

Master Class on “Heidegger & Aquinas on the Question Concerning Technology”

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

REGISTER HERE Open to current students and faculty. Copies of the readings will be provided for those who register. SCHEDULE 9:30am Coffee & Pastries 10:00am Session I 11:25am Break 11:35am Session II 1:00pm End, lunch REQUIRED READINGS Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I, Q.47, Art.1-2 (on creation); III, Q.60, Art.2-4 (on sacraments) Martin Heidegger, The Question […]

Non-Credit Course on Modern Science and Christian Faith

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. This program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and The Our […]