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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.

Join us for a reception to celebrate the recently released book A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope that Lies Within (CUA Press, 2015) by the late Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. on the one-year anniversary of his passing. Finished by Francis

cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop This lecture will address the potential changes in the Catholic Church’s approach to marriage and family life to result from the Extraordinary Synod on the Family convened by Pope Francis this month.

A panel discussion with William Cavanaugh (DePaul University), Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago), and James B. Murphy (Dartmouth College) at the University of Chicago on April 7, 2016. René Girard (1923-2015) has been described as the Darwin of the human

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April 1, 2016

Aryeh Kosman (Haverford College) Cosponsored by the Philosophy Department Aristotle’s remarks in the last book of the Nicomachean Ethics that the highest form of happiness consists in θεωρία is often translated as revealing happiness to consist in contemplation, without noting

Randy Boyagoda (author of Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square) Cosponsored by First Things, the Chicago Leadership Forum, and Relevant Radio For all the political controversies that Fr. Richard John Neuhaus was involved in over his four

Timothy B. Noone (Catholic University of America) REGISTER HERE Cosponsored by the Philosophy Department and the Medieval Studies Workshop This lecture will situate Bonaventure’s thought on education, philosophy, and the sciences into the context of the thirteenth century’s controversies regarding

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January 28, 2016

Cosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop and the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop “The well-known is what we have yet to learn.” T.S. Eliot What do we know of the prayer-life of St Thomas Aquinas? This lecture will be directly

Regina M. Schwartz (Northwestern University) cosponsored by the Department of English The law presumes not only the right but the duty to punish: it does not ask whether it should punish, but how much, who, when, and how. In contrast,

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December 20, 2015

The late Cardinal Francis George, O.M.I., left behind an impressive intellectual legacy for the American Catholic Church. Cardinal Timothy Dolan shared another side to his friend’s personality that most people did not always hear about.

REGISTER HERE cosponsored by the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop