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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.
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 March 22.
“One thing that's really striking about the Lumen Christi events,” Miriam thinks, “is that they never compromise the integrity and the truths of the Catholic faith."
At the Ash Wednesday liturgy, the priest says, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” These special words remind me of a fundamental tension in humankind, described by Bishop Erik Varden.
For four weeks in January and February, students joined Prof. Magnus Ferguson to discuss Arendt’s thought provoking work and the ways that it intersects with the Catholic intellectual tradition.
For Shaw, stories are a basic human need because humans are meaning-seeking creatures. We are intelligent, which means both that we seek truth and we make sense of our lives and our world through narratives, or stories.
Today, our country remembers Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 19, 1963, King wrote his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," addressed to fellow clergymen who criticized his activities as "unwise and untimely."
On New Year's Day, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God. In the reflection below, Pope St. John Paul II explains a deepening in his devotion to our Blessed Mother.
Today, I write to you with a reflection about gifts. The passage comes from the Book of Prayer and Meditation (1554), written by the Dominican friar Louis of Granada.
Charlie Robinson, one of our Development Associates, shares her story about her entry into the Church and the impact that LCI has made on her life.
We sat down for an interview with Eric DeVilliers, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lumen Christi Institute, who engages in the comparative study of early Christianity and Islam.
Each quarter, LCI reaches out to one of our alumni and catches up with them about where their career has taken them since their involvement in LCI programming as a student. This fall, LCI staff spoke with David Albertson.
On September 25th, the Lumen Christi Institute was pleased to host renowned poet, novelist, and environmentalist Paul Kingsnorth to discuss his new book, "Against the Machine," in a Q&A with poet and professor James Matthew Wilson.