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Truth and Authority in Augustine’s City of God

University of California, Berkeley S Hall Rd. Berkeley, CA 94720, Berkeley, CA

You can download the poster here. In this seminar, students will read, analyze, and discern continuities and discontinuities in Catholic Social Thought from the late 19th century to the present. Lectures, seminar reports, and discussion will focus on original sources (encyclicals and other magisterial documents), beginning with Rerum novarum (1892) and concluding with Caritas in veritate (2009) and Evangelii Gaudium (2013). […]

Master Class on “Dark Night and Flame of Love: The Mysticism of John of the Cross”

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

Registration is required. Open to current university students and faculty. A copy of John of the Cross: Selected Writings (Paulist Press, 1987) will be provided for registrants. The Discalced Carmelite friar, Juan de la Cruz (1542-91), is one of the most famous of Catholic mystics. This one-time Master Class will present a synopsis of John’s […]

Judging as Judgment

Jenner & Block, 45th Floor 353 N Clark St. Chicago, IL 60654, Downtown, IL

You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the event, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago, the Decalogue Society of Lawyers, the Christian Legal Society, the Jewish […]

Comparing Trent, Vactican I, and Vatican II

Classics 110 1010 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

To view photos of the lecture, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Based on a forthcoming book entitled When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II that bears the fruit of decades of scholarship, this lecture by one of the greatest living experts of modern Church history […]

Master Class on “Councils and Popes: Who’s in Charge?”

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

Registration is required. Open to current university students and faculty. A PDF of the assigned readings will be provided. The purpose of the seminar is to deepen understanding of the historical course of the relationship between councils and popes through an examination of four key texts published at four key moments in the ongoing dialectic […]

Vatican I: Loss and Gain with Papal Governance of the Catholic Church

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

You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To read O'Malley's contribution to this panel discussion in the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life's Church Life Journal, click here. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored […]

Schola Antiqua Concert “La Rue @ 500”

Emmanuel Episcopal Church 203 S Kensington Ave, La Grange

$25 general/$10 student Schola Antiqua commemorates the quincentennial of the death of Pierre de la Rue (d. 1518), one of the most talented and highly-prized composers of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In the service of the wealthy and influential Habsburg-Burgundian court, La Rue actively wrote in all of the major musical genres […]

Can Transcendence be Organized? The Catholic Church Between Universalism and Establishment

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

Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Committee on Social Thought and the Theology Club. If a religion differentiates itself from the culture of specific peoples, states, or empires and represents the ideal of moral universalism and an understanding of transcendence, it cannot evade the problem of self-organization. While this is true of […]

Georges Lemaître: His Science, Faith, and Why “Hubble’s Law” Ought to be Renamed

Kent Hall, Room 107 1020 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To read an adapted version of Lunine's lecture as an article published by the Notre Dame McGrath Institute for Church Life's ​​​​​​​Church Life Journal, click here. To view photos of the lecture, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. Free and open […]

The Collapse of Lehman Brothers: An Inside Story

Saieh Hall 021 5757 S. University Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of Freidheim's talk, visit Lumen Christi's Facebook page. This event was cosponsored by Catholics at Booth. What it was like to be inside the executive suite of Lehman Brothers during the financial crisis of 2008? […]

Master Class on “Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson, and the Thomist Renewal in the 20th Century: Academic and Spiritual Approaches”

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

Open to current university students and faculty. PDFs of the assigned readings will be provided for those who register. For the Blessed Paul VI, Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was a master "in the art of thinking and praying". In 1975, Paul VI sent a letter to Etienne Gilson (1884-1978) to thank him for his whole life […]