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From 2012 to 2020, Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ delivered hundreds of lectures and master classes at the Lumen Christi Institute. Seeking to share the depth of his scholarship, this podcast offers many of his lectures (edited for coherence and quality) to the public in digital format for the first time. 

The first season features a course that Fr. Mankowski gave on Joseph Ratzinger’s Jesus of Nazareth, and dozens of lectures centered around the books of the Bible (including Genesis, many of the prophets, the Gospel of Matthew, and St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans). Two interviews with people who knew Fr. Mankowski well and can offer an entry point to his person and scholarship conclude the season.

To honor the legacy of our longtime scholar-in-residence, we have created the Fr. Paul V. Mankowski, SJ Memorial Fund for Jesuit Scholarship.
Learn more here.

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September 23, 2026

Fall 2026 Lumen Christi Events

Click here to learn more about Lumen Christi's events this quarter.
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November 3, 2026

Applications Open for The Nicklin Fellows Program

The Nicklin Fellows are the recipients of a competitive, application based fellowship for undergraduate students. Nicklin Fellows are granted exclusive access to research and development grant funds to pursue their intellectual interests. Applications are due December 18th.
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November 3, 2026

Seeking Graduate Reading Groups for the Winter & Spring Quarters

Lumen Christi follows St. Paul’s injunction to attend to whatever is true, noble, right, admirable, and lovely. We support this endeavor by sponsoring a number of graduate student reading groups that may explore any genre, theme, time, and place.
Faith and Politics: Reflections of a Catholic Legislator
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October 8, 2026

Job Opening: Student Workers

The Lumen Christi Institute seeks part-time student workers to help with events and other tasks related to our mission to make the Catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the secular university and the broader culture.
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October 8, 2026

Illinois Supreme Court Assigns Hon. Thomas Donnelly to First District Appellate Court

The Hon. Thomas More Donnelly, a long-time friend of the Lumen Christi Institute, has been appointed by the IL Supreme Court to the First District Appellate Court.
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October 7, 2026

Can We Simulate the Dead? A Symposium on Technology, Grief, and the Afterlife

This symposium will bring together top scholars to discuss new advances in “grief-tech,” and will ask what disrupting conceptions of death through technology might mean for vital aspects of human self-understanding, mourning, care relationships, and the social order in which
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September 25, 2026

Now Accepting Applications: Lumen Christi Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

The Lumen Christi Institute invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship. The program offers funding to support the research and professional development of exceptional scholars in Catholic studies.
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September 23, 2026

How to Pray as a Catholic | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

Have you ever wondered how to pray? Join us for a lecture by Dr. Daniel Wasserman-Soler, as he explores the spiritual writers on prayer from the Middle Ages – and how they can relate to our life of prayer today.
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September 7, 2026

The Gospel of Work

Since ancient times, human beings have classified each other by the kind of work they perform. But God calls us to a different point of view: work is valuable because “the one who is doing it is a person.”
A Life in Service of the Truth: The Legacy of Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ
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September 3, 2026

Remembering Fr. Paul Mankowski, S.J.

Today, we remember Fr. Paul Mankowski, S.J., Lumen Christi's longtime scholar-in-residence and University of Chicago alumnus, who passed away six years ago.
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August 4, 2026

Remembering Thomas Levergood

Thomas believed that the Catholic intellectual tradition had the power to transform minds, shape culture, and renew the Church. That conviction was the animating force behind everything he built at Lumen Christi and the reason this Institute exists today.
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July 28, 2026

Partner Spotlight: The Fons Vitae Institute at Duke

The programming that Fons Vitae provides at Duke, like each of the member-institutes of the network across the country, exemplifies Levergood’s vision for the expansion of the effort to maintain the Catholic intellectual tradition today.