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SUMMARY:Venerating the Saints: An Ancient Tradition Actual Today
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event is co-presented with the Bollandist Society and America Media\, and is co-sponsored by the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University\, the Nova Forum\, the Harvard Catholic Forum\, the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC\, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage\, the Georgetown Office of Mission and Ministry\, and the Collegium Institute. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. \nFew Christian practices are as ancient and widely popular as veneration of the saints.  It is appropriate on this Feast of All Saints to review that history\, consider the challenges it has faced\, and reflect on its appeal even in our day. Beginning with the early veneration of the martyrs\, especially in Rome\, the presentation will show how it expanded to confessors who “confessed” or witnessed to the faith under trial and then came to include the veneration of images and relics\, which provoked severe controversy. The talk will conclude with consideration of Jesuit saints\, saints today\, and the work of the Bollandist Society\, a unique group of Jesuits based in Belgium who have\, for centuries\, provided crucial editing and scholarship that have defined the field of “hagiography\,” the serious\, critical historical study of the lives of the saints. \nYou can learn more about the Bollandist Society here.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-venerating-saints-an-ancient-tradition-actual-today-john-omalley-sj/
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SUMMARY:Thinking Inside and Outside the University: Zena Hitz on the Inner Life
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and YouTube live-stream. This event is presented by the Lumen Christi Institute Forum on the Church in Higher Education as part of its Liberal Arts Colloquium. This event is cosponsored by The Point magazine\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, Calvert House Catholic Center\, Princeton University Press\, and the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage. \nIn a world where efficiency and utility are the standards by which we measure success\, how do we appreciate what resists quantification? And at a moment of institutional change and instability for higher education\, what do we hold onto? \nIn her new book\, Lost in Thought\, Zena Hitz lays out the case for the inner life as a good in itself. Today\, when even the humanities are often defended only for their economic or political usefulness\, Hitz says our intellectual lives are valuable not despite but because of their practical uselessness. Within or without institutional structures\, the intellectual life offers a source of meaning and fulfillment. \nIn this webinar conversation with Jared Ortiz\, Hitz will elucidate the hidden pleasures of contemplation\, assess the possibilities for its re-emergence in the contemporary university\, and debate whether figures as dissimilar as the Virgin Mary\, Albert Einstein\, and Malcom X can be said to participate in a common intellectual activity.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-thinking-inside-outside-university-zena-hitz-on-inner-life-zena-hitz-jared-ortiz/
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SUMMARY:Quo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology\, a Pastoral Perspective for the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be presented on Zoom (registration required)\, as well as through live-stream on YouTube. This event is co-presented with the Godbearer Institute and the Collegium Institute.\nMetropolitan Borys Gudziak has spent his life committed to Catholic education. He helped to found Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv\, the only Catholic University between Poland and Japan. The University’s mission was simple: to bring the Christian humanist vision of the Catholic University to Ukraine to heal the wounds inflicted by Soviet oppression. Gudziak was rector of Ukrainian Catholic University until 2012 and became president upon his episcopal ordination. After seven years as ordinary for Ukrainian Catholics in France\, Belgium\, the Netherlands\, Luxembourg\, and Switzerland he was named metropolitan archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia in 2019. From the depths of his experience living between continents\, eastern and western Europe\, the academy and pastoral life\, Gudziak will offer a pastoral perspective on the Eastern Catholic theological voice and its role in communicating the Gospel today. \n\nEastern Catholic Theology in Action\nDistinct in their liturgy\, theology\, spirituality\, and discipline of Church life\, 23 Eastern Churches are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church. The Second Vatican Council urged the Eastern Catholic Churches to cultivate and promote their unique share of the tradition. This series responds to that mandate and features leading scholars in the field to offer their theological perspectives drawn from the wisdom of Christian East. In view of broadening our understanding of the Catholic intellectual tradition\, this series draws attention to the vantage points of Christians who worship\, think\, and pray in continuity with the first 1\,000 years of the undivided Church. \nThis series is co-presented with the Godbearer Institute and co-sponsored by the Beatrice Institute\, the Calvert House Catholic Center\, the Catholic Theological Union\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, God With Us Online\, the Harvard Catholic Forum\, the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies\, the Nova Forum\, the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University\, the Saint Benedict Institute\, the St. Paul University Catholic Center\, St. Stephen Byzantine Catholic Church\, and the Tabor Life Institute. \nPrevious Lectures in the Series \nThursday\, September 3\, 7 p.m. CDT\nIntroduction to Liturgical Mystagogy | Daniel Galadza (University of Regensburg) \nThursday\, September 10\, 7 p.m. CDT\nA Theology of Wonder: An Introduction to the Poetry of Ephrem the Syrian | Andrew Hayes (University of St. Thomas\, Houston) \nThursday\, September 17\, 7 p.m. CDT\nChrist the Lover of Mankind: Philanthropia\, Mystery\, and Martyria in Eastern Christianity | Robin Darling Young (Catholic University of America) \nThursday\, September 24\, 7 p.m. CDT\nEastern Churches\, Latin Territories: Ecclesial Catholicity and the Notion of Diaspora | Alexander Laschuk (Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at University of St. Michael’s College) \nThursday\, October 1\, 7.p.m. CDT\nExpanding the Archive: Syriac Literature and the Study of Early Christianity Today | Erin Walsh (University of Chicago)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-quo-vadis-eastern-catholic-theology/
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SUMMARY:Master Class on Yves Simon on Natural Law
DESCRIPTION:A FOLLOW UP MASTER CLASS ON PART 2 OF THE BOOK WILL BE HELD ON JANUARY 15.\nOpen to current graduate students. It will take place online on Zoom. Copies of the readings will be provided. Others interested in participating should contact us. \nJoin us for a master class on Yves Simon’s The Tradition of Natural Law: A Philosopher’s Reflections (Fordham University Press\, 1999). \nYou can watch Professor Hittinger’s lecture on Part 1 of the book here. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nThe tradition of natural law is one of the foundations of Western civilization. At its heart is the conviction that there is an objective and universal justice which transcends humanity’s particular expressions of justice. It asserts that there are certain ways of behaving which are appropriate to humanity simply by virtue of the fact that we are all human beings. Recent political debates indicate that it is not a tradition that has gone unchallenged: in fact\, the opposition is as old as the tradition itself. \nBy distinguishing between philosophy and ideology\, by recalling the historical adventures of natural law\, and by reviewing the theoretical problems involved in the doctrine\, Simon clarifies much of the confusion surrounding this perennial debate. He tackles the questions raised by the application of natural law with skill and honesty as he faces the difficulties of the subject. \nSimon warns against undue optimism in a revival of interest in natural law and insists that the study of natural law beings with the analysis of “the law of the land.” He writes not as a polemicist but as a philosopher\, and he writes of natural law with the same force\, conciseness\, lucidity and simplicity which have distinguished all his other works.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-master-class-on-tradition-of-natural-law-a-philosophers-reflection/
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SUMMARY:Human Rights and Human Wrongs: The Catholic History of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. This event was made possible by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute\, and is cosponsored by the University of Saint Mary of the Lake\, Mundelein Seminary\, and the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office. \nYou can email Austin Walker or Madison Chastain with any questions or concerns! \nOnline Schedule \n9:30 Opening Prayer & Welcome \n9:45 1st Lecture \n10:20 1st Q&A \n10:45 Break \n11:00 2nd Lecture \n11:35 2nd Q&A \n11:45pm Online Breakout Discussion Groups \n12:30pm Conclusion \n\nWhat makes something right?  What makes something wrong? What is a “right\,” and why ought it be respected? What happens if two people’s rights come into conflict? What is justice? Why (and how) ought it be pursued?The Newman Forum is excited to continue its yearly tradition of day-long academic conferences during the Autumn and Winter Quarters. \nOn Saturday\, November 14\, the Newman Forum will host a conference about the relationship between rights\, justice\, and–the theme we’ve chosen for our year–human dignity. Professor Paolo Carozza will introduce us to the development of the earliest human rights tradition by Spanish Dominicans in the 16th century\, and chart the course of its expansion into our contemporary language of human rights and social justice\, which fails to achieve its ends when it loses the Catholic understanding of human dignity. It can seem to us that the Catholic Church is new to topics of justice and rights\, but not only were Catholics some of the first to develop the language of rights and justice\, but the Catholic understanding of human dignity is pivotal to our contemporary pursuit of a just society! \n\nThis November\, our fall conference will be a hybrid event. IN-PERSON REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. \nHigh school teachers and youth ministers are encouraged to bring online groups. If they so desire\, they will be given their own virtual discussion room after the lectures to discuss the content with their students. Otherwise\, your students can be assigned to a group led by one of our trained graduate-student discussion leaders. A separate pre-event prep meeting is offered to teachers who would like it. \nIn-Person Schedule \n9:00 Grab-and-go breakfast (Coffee Room) \n9:30 Prayer and Welcome (Chapel) \n9:45 1st Lecture (Chapel) \n10:20 1st Q&A (Chapel) \n10:45 Break & Snack (Coffee Room) \n11:00 2nd Lecture (Chapel) \n11:35 2nd Q&A (Chapel) \n11:45 Transition to Eucharistic Adoration (Chapel) \n12:10pm Grab-and-Go Lunch (Coffee Room) & Discussion Groups (Breakout Rooms) \n1:00pm Final Q&A (Chapel) \n1:30pm Closing Prayer (Chapel) \nThere will be mandatory health screenings at the start of the in-person experience. Masks will be required at all times during the day\, except for when students are eating. Refusal to wear a mask or follow appropriate social distancing protocols will be grounds for removal from the event\, as it will violate the Newman Forum’s contract with Mundelein Seminary.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-human-rights-human-wrongs-catholic-history-of-human-rights-paolo-carozza-austin-walker/
LOCATION:University of Saint Mary of the Lake\, 1000 East Maple Avenue \nMundelein\, IL 60060\, Mundelein\, IL
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SUMMARY:Extraterrestrial Life: The Science and the Theology
DESCRIPTION:A webinar discussion with Jonathan I. Lunine (Cornell University)\, and Christopher Baglow (University of Notre Dame). This presentation is the second part of the the Steno Lectures: Discussions at the Intersection of Faith and Science\, presented by the Society of Catholic Scientists and the Science and Religion Initiative at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. This event is co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. \nMight Extraterrestrial life exist? Where? How would we search for it? (Do we already have evidence of it?)  Could such life have human-level intelligence? If Extraterrestrial intelligent life (or “ETI” life) exists\, what would be its theological implications? These questions will be addressed by two distinguished Catholic scholars: Cornell astrophysicist\, Prof. Jonathan Lunine\, and Universiy of Notre Dame theologian\, Prof. Christopher Baglow.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-extraterrestrial-life-science-theology/
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SUMMARY:COVID-19 and the Worldwide Church
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event is organized by the Harvard Catholic Forum\, co-presented with the Lumen Christi Institute\, and co-sponsored by the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Collegium Institute\, the Institute for Faith and Culture\, the Nova Forum\, and St. Paul’s University Catholic Center. This event will be held on Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to the Harvard Catholic Forum’s YouTube page. \nThe pandemic of 2020 has disrupted the sacraments and public worship\, scattered communities\, and put local churches into new\, sometimes strained\, relationships with civil authorities. The Church has also been a significant actor in the crisis\, offering relief services and spiritual care on a massive scale. What does all this mean for the worldwide Church\, now and in the years to come? \n\nImage credit: Vatican Media
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2020-11-covid-19-worldwide-church/
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