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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.
Today, we want to share with you a new way you might consider giving to Lumen Christi that both benefits the students and helps to support your financial stability: a Charitable Gift Annuity.
Join us for this quarter's student-led reading groups at the Lumen Christi Institute. These groups are usually held over a shared meal, and all participants are provided a copy of the text.
Happy feast of St. Jerome! This week, students, faculty, and staff at the University of Chicago begin a new academic year. As a prayer for them, I invite you to read a passage from a homily of St. Jerome.
The Lumen Christi Institute (LCI) seeks part-time student workers. The Institute’s mission is to make the Catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the secular university and the broader culture.
This position has been filled.
In 2000 Pope John Paul II opened the cause for canonization of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. While our work — and the property that comes from our labor — is not a sacrament, it is holy.
Did you know that more than two-thirds of American adults do not have a will? And yet, a will is an essential legal document which experts advise everyone over the age of 18 to have.
This three-year grant will support the continuation and expansion of its previous “In Lumine” Grant, which created a national network of institutes of Catholic thought, all serving non Catholic colleges and universities.
The Lumen Christi Institute has been awarded a major grant from the John Templeton Foundation to support “In Lumine Tuo: Expanding and Sustaining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Nationwide”
Happy Independence Day! Adopted 249 years ago on July 4, the Declaration of Independence sets forth essential principles of our great country. More than a millennium earlier, St. Augustine of Hippo began his Confessions with a related principle.