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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.

Brother John McGowan is 45 years a member of Little Brothers of the Gospel, a Roman Catholic order, founded in 1956 and inspired by the life and writings of Blessed Charles de Foucauld, whose pending canonization Pope Francis approved in

The Lumen Christi Institute & Our Lady of Dallas Cistercian Abbey present Monastic Wisdom Summer Webinar Series: Wisdom from the Heart of the Cistercian Tradition Join us once per month, June through September, for four Sunday evening sessions featuring monks

A Colloquium on Learned Devotion in the Jesuit Way of Life 27­–29 May 2021 Chicago, Illinois Committee Chair: M. Ross Romero, S.J. (Creighton University) Committee Members: Matthew Baugh, S.J. (Saint Louis University), Sam Conedera, S.J. (Saint Louis University), Brian Daly,

On the day before the publication of his ninth and final volume on the history of mystical theology in Christianity, Bernard McGinn was discussing plans for his next writing project — a brief, more popular book on 19th- and 20th-century

The Lumen Christi Institute’s upcoming Hispanic Theology Series, featuring top Latino/a scholars and focused on sharing the richness and depth of Latino Catholic communities, is sponsored by a recent grant of $16,350 from Our Sunday Visitor Institute. The series, set

The need to bring civility and insightful Catholic perspective to public discourse on current social events has led to the creation of a new series on Economics & Catholic Social Thought, organized jointly by the Lumen Christi Institute and CREDO,

Lumen Christi’s Black Catholic Scholarly Initiative picked up steam recently with the creation of a steering committee, led by Darren Davis, a professor of political science and the director of the Center for Social Research at the University of Notre

Philosopher Jean-Luc Marion was named a recipient of this year’s Ratzinger Prize, often called the “Nobel Prize” for theology, by the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation. Prof. Marion will be awarded the prize by Pope Francis in a ceremony in