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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 will feature 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). Episodes will be released on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from September through December. To conclude the season, we’ll offer one or two interviews with people who knew Fr. Mankowski well and can offer an entry point to his person and scholarship.

A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
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May 14, 2025

A Catholic Vision of Art: Beauty – The Highway to God – A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

Beautiful art reflects the glory of the living, incarnate God, Jesus Christ, whether or not explicitly religious in subject matter. Art is not only an instrument and expression of culture, but also has a prophetic capacity to “prepare the way
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May 9, 2025

Pope Leo XIV and St. Leo the Great

Habemus papam! In his first speech as the successor of St. Peter, Pope Leo XIV exhorted his listeners "to be a missionary Church." In doing so, he echoed the words of one of his predecessors, Pope St. Leo the Great.
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May 9, 2025

What Can We Say About God? An Interview with David Novak on God-Talk

The Judeo-Christian tradition has long grappled with how man speaks of God and how God speaks of of himself. In his new book, God-Talk, the distinguished Jewish philosopher David Novak offers a new perspective on how the Jewish people and
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May 1, 2025

Fr. David Tracy (1939-2025)

Fr. David Tracy, the eminent Catholic theologian and distinguished professor at the University of Chicago, and member of the Lumen Christi Institute's Board of Advisers, died on Tuesday, April 29, the feast of St. Catherine of Siena.
A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
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April 24, 2025

Christianity, Culture, and Sport: From Play to Virtue – A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

Drawing on Brown’s exegetical exploration of Wisdom’s paideia in the Book of Wisdom, Clark Power explores the relationship between Christianity and culture (following Remi Brague) with a focus on sports and more specifically youth sports. He argues that sports is
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April 21, 2025

Pope Francis and Saint Francis

Pope Francis was the first Vicar of Christ to choose St. Francis of Assisi as his namesake. Twelve years ago, he said: “Francis of Assisi. For me, he is the man of poverty, the man of peace..."
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April 20, 2025

Easter Greeting

On the day of Christ’s resurrection, I write to share with you a passage from the Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena. The only laywoman named a doctor of the Church, her feast day is this month: April 29.
Faith and Politics: Reflections of a Catholic Legislator
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April 15, 2025

Job Opening: University Program Coordinator

This position has been filled.
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April 8, 2025

Cassandra Sever and Eric DeVilliers Appointed as Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellows at the Lumen Christi Institute

The Lumen Christi Institute is proud to announce the appointment of Eric DeVilliers and Cassandra Sever as the inaugural fellows for its newly launched postdoctoral fellowship program.
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March 27, 2025

Polarization, Social Cohesion, and the Economy

With polarization on the rise around the globe, scholars have pointed to a broader fragmentation of social cohesion. Economics, sociology, theology and philosophy offer different entry points for exploring these problems. How might we better understand this global moment? This
A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
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March 20, 2025

A Philosophy of Work, Leisure, and Catholic Culture – A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

In his well-known and influential essay, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper claims that we in modern western society have come to inhabit a “world of total work,” and that an essential precondition for escape is recapturing a more