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SUMMARY:The Origins of Mass Incarceration: The Courts and the 1960s Criminal Procedure Revolution?
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center\, Notre Dame Law School\, Boston College Law School\, the University of St. Thomas School of Law\, the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago\, Catholic Prison Ministry Coalition\, Kolbe House Jail Ministry\, Seattle University\, the Seattle University Crime and Justice Research Center\, Loyola University Chicago School of Law\, the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage\, Fordham University School of Law\, the Institute on Religion\, Law and Lawyer’s Work at Fordham University School of Law\, The Center on Race\, Law\, and Justice (Fordham University School of Law)\, the University of Denver College of Law Federalist Society\, and the University of Colorado Federalist Society \n\nAmerican principles of justice and equality lead our culture to value the criminal trial as a fair hearing for the accused and vindication for the victims of crime. But the reality of the U.S. justice system falls far short of this ideal\, making criminal trials the rare exception amidst a wave of plea bargains. When trials do take place\, judges are often forced to impose mandatory sentences that do not fit the unique context of a given case. \nJoin Judge Stephanos Bibas from the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals\, and author of The Machinery of Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press\, 2015)\, and Professor William Pizzi\, as they discuss Pizzi’s new book\, The Supreme Court’s Role in Mass Incarceration (Routledge\, 2020). Pizzi provocatively argues that the Supreme Court’s attempts to expand defendants’ rights in the 20th century unexpectedly led to the mass incarceration crisis today. He points to Canada as a beacon of hope\, where an unelected\, professional judiciary customizes sentences to fit the actual case. Unlike American courts\, where judges are forced by repeat-offender laws to sentence defendants to decades for a minor offense\, Canada’s judiciary freely metes out proportionate sentencing. \nThe discussion will be moderated by Cook County Judge Tom Donnelly. \nThis event is part of the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network\, a new initiative of the Lumen Christi Institute.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-04-our-broken-criminal-justice-system-mass-incarceration-problem-of-courts/
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SUMMARY:The Eucharist in Art: Visualizing Mystery
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. This event is co-presented with the Harvard Catholic Forum and co-sponsored by the Saint Benedict Institute\, the Nova Forum\, the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies\, the Ars Vivendi Arts Initiative of the Collegium Institute\, the St. Paul’s Catholic Center\, the St. Lawrence Institute for Faith and Culture\, and the New England Chapter of the Patron of the Arts Vatican Museums. \nThe 17th century Catholic Church found itself engaged in a battle over the sacraments\, especially the Eucharist. Most Protestant Reformers rejected the teaching of Transubstantiation\, while an increasingly empirical culture grew doubtful that a piece of bread and a glass of wine could ever be more than mere matter. To return the gaze of the faithful to mystery\, to assist congregations to see beyond the material\, the Catholic Church called upon the talent of Caravaggio. the Carracci School and other great artists\, who produced works that still delight\, teach and move people today. This talk will look at old masterpieces with new eyes\, revealing how artists used their gifts to render the invisible\, visible.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-04-eucharist-in-art-visualizing-mystery-elizabeth-lev/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210413T190000
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SUMMARY:Teaching Catholic Doctrine en Español
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of a webinar series on Hispanic Theology. This event and series is made possible by a generous grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nLanguage matters\, and it matters much when sharing the best of our faith convictions with one another. Without language there is no communication\, understanding or community. Sharing faith in the United States of America in an increasingly Hispanic church demands that we take questions associated with language seriously. Nearly fifteen million Catholics in the U.S. are Spanish-speaking immigrants. Many are raising their children “in Spanish.” Even though the vast majority of Hispanics are U.S. born and English-speaking\, Spanish constantly shapes their cultural and religious imagination. In this presentation\, we will reflect on the intersectionality of language\, culture and religious identity among U.S. Hispanic Catholics at the time of sharing the faith and reflect theologically. To teach Catholic doctrine “en español\,” literally or metaphorically\, is an invitation to embrace the many creative ways in which God calls us to be church in the twenty-first century.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-04-teaching-catholic-doctrine-en-espanol-hosffman-ospino/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210416T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210416T160000
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SUMMARY:Pierre Manent on Natural Law and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:This event is cosponsored by University of Notre Dame Press and the de Nicola Center for Ethics & Culture.\nShortly after the promulgation of the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948\, Jacques Maritain wrote\, “With regard to Human Rights\, what matters most to a philosopher is the question of their rational foundations. The philosophical foundation of the Rights of man is Natural Law. Sorry that we cannot find another word!” In his recent book Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason (Notre Dame Press\, 2020)\, leading Catholic political philosopher Pierre Manent takes a different and decidedly more critical approach to the relationship between natural law and human rights. \nManent argues that the project of human rights is inextricably tied to an erroneous modern understanding of human beings as naturally isolated and apolitical individuals. He tries to show that this impoverished understanding of human nature\, and thus human rights as its offspring\, distorts our self-understanding and saps the intelligibility of law\, natural or otherwise\, as well as the fecundity of human action. As part of a solution to these difficulties\, he concludes the book with a novel approach to natural law thinking that he proposes as a way of recovering the dignity of practical reason and moral action. While this book represents Manent’s first extended treatment of natural law\, he examines these issues through the same tripartite lens of politics\, philosophy\, and religion that he has developed in his earlier publications. \nIn this master class\, we will situate Manent’s book on natural law within the wider context of his work as a whole\, and we will then discuss his arguments concerning natural law and human rights in some detail\, with due sensitivity to his method of integrating insights from politics\, philosophy\, and religion. Finally\, we will attempt to see Manent’s book as part of a conversation between prominent Catholic and secular political philosophers.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-04-pierre-manent-on-natural-law-human-rights/
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SUMMARY:Ambrose and Augustine on Christian Holiness
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event was held online through Zoom and live-streamed to YouTube. This event was co-presented with the Bollandist Society.  \nWhile Saints Ambrose and Augustine never define Christian holiness\, this was the pursuit that fueled all of their writings\, all of their sermons\, and directed their everyday lives. By examining the writings of these two pillars of the Western Church\, today’s talk seeks to show how Ambrose and Augustine understood holiness and what that might mean for our lives today.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-04-st-ambrose-st-augustine/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210420T190000
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SUMMARY:Globalization from the People: Fratelli Tutti and the Latino Social Teaching of Pope Francis
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. This event is part of a webinar series on Hispanic Theology. This event and series is made possible by a generous grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. \nThe COVID-19 pandemic has been a flash point for globalization as a sign of the times\, revealing the best and worst of our interconnected human family. Released during the pandemic\, Pope Francis’s Fratelli tutti speaks directly to the political crisis of globalization\, following the worldwide financial and ecological crises addressed in the previous two social encyclicals of the twenty-first century. Despite the public conversation about Fratelli tutti\, very little attention concerns the Latino theological and political imagination of Pope Francis’s social teaching. This talk examines the new encyclical of the first Hispanic Pope from the global South as someone formed in a teología del pueblo. Among the relevant topics raised in Fratelli tutti\, we will explore the peculiar relationship between neoliberalism and universal human rights\, and the providential role of popular movements for promoting global solidarity in sharp contrast to populism.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-04-globalization-from-people-fratelli-tutti-latino-social-teaching-of-pope-francis-david-lantigua/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210422T190000
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SUMMARY:Among the Fragments: Race and the Fragile Hope of Wholeness in America
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom. This event is presented by the Veritas Forum at the University of Chicago and co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute\, the University Bible Fellowship\, Christ Church Chicago\, Living Hope Church\, Vineyard Church Hyde Park\, CRU\, Poema\, the Christian Legal Society\, InterVarsity\, UChicago Lutheran Campus Ministry\, Calvert House\, and Holy Trinity Church. \nThe legacy of race in America has left our society fragmented and fragile. But is there hope? Can Christianity provide a vision for joining these fragments together; a vision for human wholeness? Join Yale theologian Willie Jennings for an honest conversation during this interactive forum hosted by Veritas and the Christian community at UChicago.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-04-among-fragments-race-fragile-hope-of-wholeness-in-america/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210423T130000
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SUMMARY:Master Class on "Toward an Adequate Anthropology: Social Aspects of Imago Dei"
DESCRIPTION:Open to current graduate students. This master class will take place online on Zoom. Copies of the readings will be provided. Others interested in participating should contact us. \nThis master class is a follow-up to the March 26 session on Three Necessary Societies. The first master class considered pontifical teachings about the three societies necessary for human eudaimonia:  domestic\, political\, and ecclesial.  Having discussed how that theme evolved in Catholic social teaching\, the second master class moves to a deeper metaphysical and theological consideration of social orders.  The question is whether social unions are made unto the image and likeness of God.  The reading will be Prof. Hittinger’s essay “Toward an Adequate Anthropology: Social Aspects of Imago Dei.”
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-04-master-class-on-society-as-sacrament-russell-hittinger/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210427T190000
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SUMMARY:Was Something Lost? Thomas Aquinas\, Intellectual Disability\, and the 16th Century Spanish Colonial Debates
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. This event is part of a webinar series on Hispanic Theology. This event and series is made possible by a generous grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. This event is cosponsored by the National Catholic Partnership on Disability.  Live closed captioning will be made available on Zoom. \nIn the 16th century\, there was a subtle shift in the way the Spanish Dominican interpreters of Thomas Aquinas spoke about the anthropological and moral significance of our rational faculties. Historical and textual markers\, indicating both the origin and development of this interpretive shift\, present amid the fierce engagement of the Spanish colonial debates. \nMuch has been written on the specific topic of those debates: i.e.\, the allegations concerning the rational status and moral aptitude of the Amerindian peoples and\, by extension\, the justice or injustice of the Spanish colonial enterprise in the Americas. However\, it is difficult to find any scholarly work on the subject of the Spanish colonial debates: i.e.\, the anthropological and moral questions relevant to persons who seem to “lack the full use of reason.” Bearing that distinction in mind\, between the topic and subject of the debates\, this presentation for Lumen Christi is focused on persons who actually (and not allegedly) lack the full use of reason. \nKey interpretations\, appropriations\, and arguments about Aristotle and Aquinas—in the writing of John Mair\, Francisco de Vitoria\, and Bartolome de las Casas—will be retraced to show how Aquinas’s way of thinking about the intellectual dignity and inalienable contemplative aptitude of persons who “lack the use of reason” came to be displaced from the main currents of Thomistic theological discourse.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-04-theology-of-disability-in-latino-community/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210429T140000
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SUMMARY:Automation and the Future of Work: Insights from Economics and Catholic Social Thought
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. This event will be held online through Zoom (registration required) and live-streamed to YouTube. This event is co-presented with CREDO and cosponsored by the Las Casas Institute\, Catholics at Booth\, and America Media.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-04-automation-labor-market/
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SUMMARY:God is Complicated – Science is Complex
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public. Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum for High School Students. Cosponsored by The Society of Catholic Scientists and Mundelein Seminary. \nThe most important development in modern science that you’ve likely never heard of is “Complexity Theory.” \nWhy do highly ordered structures seem to emerge almost spontaneously from chaotic\, random collections? \nWhether it’s galaxies forming in the early universe\, thousands of birds forming single flocks that move in perfect unison\, or the possible emergence of life from random interactions of organic molecules\, Complexity Theory is producing exciting new insights into how it all comes together.  And if God works through complex systems\, what does that tell us about the divine ordering of the natural world?  Join us at 7pm CT on Zoom for a fascinating dive into complexity. \nPlease consider helping to underwrite the cost of the event\, so it can reach the widest audience of Catholic high school students. Click HERE to donate\, and be sure to indicate “High School Program” or “Newman Forum” in the memo.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2021-04-god-is-complicated-science-is-complex-fr-john-kartje/
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