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.

St. Thomas Aquinas on Free Choice

Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome Piazza Santa Apollinare, 49, 00186 Roma, Italy, Rome, Italy

  APPLY HERE This seminar will be a five-day, intensive discussion of St Thomas Aquinas’ philosophical account of liberum arbitrium and the psychological and metaphysical principles underlying it. The sessions will focus on passages from the Summa theologiae (including ST, I, 19, 59-60, 82-83; ST, I-II, 6, 9, 10, 13) and will refer to other works of Aquinas (such as the De […]

The Thought of John Henry Newman

Merton College, Oxford Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JD, UK, Oxford, United Kingdom

APPLY HERE Now in its third consecutive year, this seminar is an intensive five-day course for graduate students on the thought of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman. It will examine Newman’s achievement as theologian, philosopher, educator, preacher, and writer. Remarkably, in each of these areas Newman produced works that have come to be recognized as […]

Truth and Authority in Augustine’s City of God

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

APPLICATION DEADLINE IS NOW FEBRUARY 15 APPLY HERE This seminar is an intensive five-day course in how to read, analyze, and discern the many themes in Augustine’s most ambitious and sprawling work. The City of God tells the history of two societies, and their respective origins, progress, and appointed ends. The story is engaged first from the […]

Spousal Vision: Seeing the Church with Lumen Gentium

St. Procopius Abbey Church 5601 College Rd. Lisle, IL 60532, Lisle, IL

John Cavadini (University of Notre Dame) The Lumen Christi Institute is pleased to cosponsor this lecture, which is part of an annual lecture series on “The Documents of the Second Vatican Council” sponsored by St. Procopius Abbey & Benedictine University. Previous lecturers in this series include Fr. Robert Barron and Francis Cardinal George. This event is free and […]

“Isaiah: Prophet & Poet” Non-Credit Course

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

Tuesdays, Oct. 7-Nov. 25 Gavin House, 1220 East 58th Street 6:00PM Informal Dinner 6:30PM Presentation Fr. Paul Mankowski, S.J. REGISTER HERE He left a powerfully personal and enduring stamp on his and subsequent civilizations, while almost nothing is known of the man himself.  Isaiah was not Israel’s first prophet, yet can be said to have […]

A Guide to the Thought of Pope Francis

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

Anna Bonta Moreland (Villanova University) In this luncheon presentation, Argentinian-born theologian Anna Bonta Moreland employs Pope Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (Joy of the Gospel) as a roadmap to the Pope’s vision for the Church and the Christian life as a call to evangelization.  She  shows how the Apostolic Exhortation is representative of how Pope Francis thinks […]

Monastic Silence and a Visual Dialogue

Film Studies Center, Cobb 307 5811 S Ellis Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

A book talk and screening of documentary film-in-progress with Abbie Reese cosponsored by the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and Calvert House Abbie Reese will share the process entailed in a long-term oral history and visual arts project that is the basis for her recent book, Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns […]

Schola Antiqua Concert: “Uncloistered: Sounds from the Convent”

Sacred Heart Parish 1077 Tower Rd. Winnetka, IL 60093, Winnetka, IL

“Uncloistered: Sounds from the Convent” Saturday, October 25: 8:00pm Sacred Heart Parish, Winnetka, IL Sunday, October 26: 3:30pm St. Clement Church, Chicago, IL A concert by Schola Antiqua of Chicago Tickets available online or at the door (cash, check or credit)$25 adults / $10 student and senior An expanded roster of outstanding female voices presents a wide-ranging […]

The Modern Scientist as a Palimpsest of Three Fausts

Kent Hall, Room 120 1020 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Stephen Meredith (University of Chicago) cosponsored by the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop A palimpsest is a manuscript or painting produced over a previous work. This lecture will treat “the modern scientist” as a palimpsest of three versions of the Faust story: The Faust Chapbook by an unknown author (1586), Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808/1832), […]

Solemn Vespers, Dinner, and Discussion at the Monastery of the Holy Cross

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

Join us on the Feast of All Saints for Solemn Vespers, dinner, and conversation with Prior Peter Funk at the Monastery of the Holy Cross. For Solemn Vespers, the monks will sing traditional Gregorian chant and be accompanied by its choir-in residence Schola Laudis. This is a rare opportunity to experience prayer with beautiful sacred […]

The Necessity of Goodness

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

Rémi Brague (Sorbonne/University of Munich) cosponsored by the France Chicago Center at the University of Chicago We commonly conceive of the Good as being what we should do, sharing Aristotle’s rejection of Plato’s Idea of the Good and his reduction of the good to what can be done by a free subject. Since this subject […]