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Harsh Justice: The Widening Divide Between America and Europe

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

REGISTER HERE Free and open to the public a panel discussion with James Q. Whitman, Yale University Law School Respondents Hon. Tom Dart,Cook County Sheriff Hon. Colleen Sheehan, Cook County Circuit Court Judge Kim Foxx, Former Assistant State’s Attorney, Juvenile Justice Division, and Former Chief of Staff to President of Cook County Board, Toni Preckwinkle Hon. Ann M. […]

Pope Francis, Marriage, and the Family

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

In the wake of a synodal process that reflected on “the vocation and mission of the family today,” (RF 1) Pope Francis recently released a sweeping and rich post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia on love in the family, in which he invites Christian families to “value the gifts of marriage and the family, and to persevere in a […]

The Myth of Autonomy

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

Modernity and post-modernity share an evolving notion of autonomy, conceived along nominalist lines, that runs counter to earlier concepts of human freedom developed by the likes of Irenaeus and Anselm. Persona creatus is today displacing homo gratus, both culturally and politically. What is at stake in this evolution? Fundamental theology, obviously, and anthropology too. Perception […]

Schola Antiqua Concert: Caged Byrd

St. John Cantius Church 825 N Carpenter St Chicago, IL 60642, Chicago, IL

General $25 / Students $10. Purchase tickets HERE. A concert of sacred motets and keyboard music by William Byrd with Jason Moy, harpsichord. For more information visit the Schola Antiqua website.

Symposium on Heidegger’s Confessions

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

Cosponsored by the Philosophy of Religions Workshop and the Theology & Religious Ethics Workshop Although Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God, the philosopher himself acknowledged that Christianity accompanied him at every stage of his career. In Heidegger’s Confessions, Ryan Coyne isolates a crucially important player in this […]

Aquinas’s Five Ways and Where they Lead

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

This intensive seminar will discuss St. Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways of proving the existence of a God and the conception that he thinks they yield: that of a God who is at once utterly simple and utterly perfect, and therefore utterly beyond our comprehension. The sessions will center on Summa Theologiae, I, qq. 2-4—especially, of course, […]

The Thought of John Henry Newman

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

Now in its fourth consecutive year, this intensive seminar will examine Newman’s achievements as theologian, philosopher, educator, preacher, and writer. Remarkably, in each of these areas Newman produced works that have come to be recognized as classics: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, The Grammar of Assent, The Idea of a University, The […]

Catholic Social Thought: A Critical Investigation

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

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). This intensive course is multi-disciplinary, since […]

NYC Master Class on “The Wisdom of Bernard of Clairvaux”

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

This master class is open to graduate students and faculty. Undergraduates or others interested in participating should contact us. PDFs of the readings will be made available online for all participants. Complimentary copies of Early Christian Mystics (Crossroads, 2003) will be provided at the seminar. This one-time Seminar will study selected writings of the great […]

Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Era of Obama

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

ABOUT THE BOOK Impeccably researched, thought-challenging and leavened by wit, Getting Religion, the highly-anticipated new book from Kenneth L. Woodward, is ideal perfect for readers looking to understand how religion came to be a contentious element in 21st century public life. Here the award-winning author blends memoir (especially of the postwar era) with copious reporting […]

Kingship: The Politics of Enchantment

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

REGISTER HERE Cosponsored by the History Department and the Medieval Studies Workshop The lecture will focus on the extraordinary millennial career of the sacral kingship down through the ages and across the globe as the most common form of government known to humankind. It will trace its survival down into the early modern era and […]