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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.
Summer is when our staff deliberates, reflects, and plans. We look back at the academic year, consider what went well, what can be improved, and how to implement those improvements. Will you help us plan our most robust year yet?
On Memorial Day, we celebrate the humility of our soldiers, who gave their lives for a greater cause: their country. Today, I am reminded of a military officer whom Jesus knew, the Roman centurion in chapter 8 of Matthew's gospel.
In the winter quarter, the Lumen Christi Institute was honored to welcome Rev. Dr. Adam Hincks, S.J., as scholar-in-residence.
Pope Francis described the Church as “a mother with an open heart.” He added, “Everyone can share in some way in the life of the Church; everyone can be part of the community.”
We sat down for an interview with Kristof Oltvai, a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago Divinity School and leader of the Lumen Christi Dante Graduate Student Reading Group.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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..."
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.