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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 malfeasance of bishops and priests has led to a call for reform of the institution of the Church. There is a peril in this: the Church is animated and governed by the Holy Spirit and an overemphasis upon the
This event was open to high school students, parents, and teachers. Co-sponsored by Mundelein Seminary, the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office, Relevant Radio, and the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. This program was made
Flannery O’Connor is one of the most celebrated American fiction writers. Yet she has often been misunderstood by the very critics who praise her. O’Connor was sometimes called a hillbilly nihilist, but she responded that she was simply “a hillbilly
Presented by the Veritas Forum at the University of Chicago, Cana, Cru, Graduate Christian Fellowship, Holy Trinity Church, InterVarsity, Living Hope Church, The Lumen Christi Institute, MakeNew, the Calvert House Catholic Center, the Catholic Students Association, and the Saint Thomas
We are at the very outset of the Age of Biotechnology. This presses anew questions regarding the limits of the human person. What is the human species from the point of view of evolutionary biology? How malleable is this
We are at the very outset of the Age of Biotechnology. This presses anew questions regarding the limits of the human person. What is the human species from the point of view of evolutionary biology? How malleable is this definition?
This event was Cosponsored by the Theology and Ethics Workshop, the Orthodox Christian Fellowship, and St. Makarios the Great Orthodox Mission. Fr. Behr also led a master class for students and faculty on January 17 on Maximus the Confessor. On
A luncheon colloquium with Carols Eire, T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History & Religious Studies at Yale University. October 24th, 2019 The University Club of Chicago — Saint Teresa of Avila’s Life is among the most remarkable accounts ever
A symposium on “The Life of Teresa of Ávila: A Biography”, by Carlos Eire, featuring Professors Carlos Eire (Yale University), Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago), Susan Schreiner (University of Chicago), and Keith Egan (Saint Mary’s College). October 24, 2019 The
Colloquium with Fr John O’Malley, S.J. (Georgetown), and Dr. Russell Hittinger (Lumen Christi). Moderated by Dr. Jennifer Newsome Martin (University of Notre Dame). December 4, 2019 at the University of Chicago, Social Science Lecture Hall — Sexual and financial scandals
Cosponsored by the Program on Religion and Medicine at the University of Chicago, McCormick Theological Seminary, and the Society of Catholic Scientists. This program was made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. The discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 has
A conversation with Fr. Ian Ker (Oxford), and Melissa Villalobos, moderated by journalist Kenneth Woodward. — On October 30th, 2019, the Lumen Christi Institute held “John Henry Newman’s Path to Sainthood” at the Holy Name Cathedral Auditorium. The event provided