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Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department at the University of Chicago.  The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French […]

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-sponsored by the History Department at the University of Chicago.  The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French […]

Master Class on “Catholicism and Upheaval Between the World Wars”

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

Open to current students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. All registrants will receive pdfs of the selected readings, which should be read in advance of the class. The first 20 registrants will receive a free copy of Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis. This Master Class will use […]

Winter 2023 Fundamental Questions Seminar: Sophocles’ Antigone

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

Open to current undergraduate students at the University of Chicago. Registration is capped at 20. Students who register after capacity has been reached will be put on a waitlist. All registrants will be provided with a copy of the text. “For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, is full of misery.”  Here is […]

Ash Wednesday Reflection with Archbishop Borys Gudziak

5554 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Registration required. Open only to current students at the Univesity of Chicago. Registration is capped at 20. This event will be held at the Lumen Christi Woodlawn Residence for Graduate Students.  Join us for a special evening program for students with Metropolitan Borys Gudziak. Metropolitan Borys is the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in […]

Graduate Reading Group on “The Works of Frederick Douglass”

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

Open to current graduate students students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact info@lumenchristi.org. Wine and cheese reception to follow.  Frederick Douglass is, without a doubt, a great American writer and orator. Largely self taught, he wove together the traditions of American rhetoric […]

Lessons from the Past to Heal the Future: A Perspective on healing Ukraine post-war

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

This event is open to the public. Registration is required. Please contact info@lumenchristi.org with any questions. As a Church historian, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak has dedicated his vocation to transcribing and articulating the experience of the underground Church in Ukraine during the 20th century. These lessons of perseverance and adherence to the gospel—embodying the cross, death and resurrection—form the foundation […]

Ideologies of War and Theologies of Healing: Ukraine one year later

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

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-presented with Fordham University's Orthodox Christian Studies Center, and co-sponsored by the Sheptysky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, Commonweal Magazine, America Media, the University of Chicago's Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion, the Three Hierarchs Orthodox Christian Fellowship, and CNEWA.  One year later, […]

Winter Non-Credit Course | Heresies, Ancient and Modern: The Truth about Error

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

Tuesdays, Jan. 10-Feb. 28 6:00pm: Dinner 6:30pm: Presentation Intended for university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. What is “heresy?”  At first glance, the term “heresy” might be dismissed as […]

Our Troubled Minds, Our Anxious Age, and the Ancient Alternative of Cistercian Spirituality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

ONLINE World Wide Web, INTERNET

Watch the Recording Here This event is co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought at the University of Virginia. Find out more at their website: https://www.stanselminstitute.org/index.php/publicectures/upcominglectures/270-march-18-2023-public-lecture Have you ever been afflicted by a lack of focus, feelings of loneliness, debilitating anxieties, or inexplicable bouts of sadness, anger or despair […]

Money and the Good Life: a lunchtime discussion with Mary Hirschfeld

Booth School of Business 5807 S Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL

Open to current students and faculty. Box lunches will be served. To inquire about registration, please email info@lumenchristi.org. In 2018, Mary Hirschfeld, economist and theologian, made a landmark intervention in the relationship between economics and theology. By locating the source of economic life in the search for human happiness, Hirschfeld used a Thomistic framework to […]

Rethinking Economic Inequality: a Theological Perspective

Booth School of Business, Room 104-C 5807 S Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org.  This event is co-presented by the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization (CREDO) and cosponsored by the In Lumine Network and Catholics at Booth. This event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant […]