Tag: High School

Newman Forum Summer Institute | Mystery and Reality: The Eucharist in Catholic Thought, Art, and Life

Over six days, high school students will be introduced to college-level study through an investigation of the theology and artistic depictions of the Eucharist. Notre Dame professors Jay and Jennifer Martin will lead students through a discussion of thinkers like Ignatius of Antioch, Thomas Aquinas, and Joseph Ratzinger along with biblical texts.  We balance academic excellence with spiritual formation. Students learn how to pray the Liturgy of the Hours, attend Daily Mass, and reflect on their vocation. We also balance work and play. Mornings are for lectures and discussion, afternoons and evenings for excursions and fun. This year we will…

Winter Newman Forum Conference for High School Students: What Really Happened At…

What really happens if we genetically engineer humans to thrive on Mars? What really happened at the medieval inquisition? What really happens when you see the face of God? Discover the fascinating reality behind misunderstood topics by engaging with college professors and graduate students to discuss the wonders of science, lessons of history, beauty of literature, and mysteries of faith.

Winter Newman Forum Conference for High School Students: Back to the Future!

Is there time in heaven? Did the Medieval world make modern science possible? Was St. Augustine anxious? What would Aristotle say about post-modern art? High school students are invited to join the Lumen Christi Institute for a half day conference on the nature of time and the relationship of the past and present.

Science, Creation, & the Catholic Imagination

Science, Creation, & the Catholic Imagination

Listen to the lectures as podcast episodes. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the conference, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. Have you ever wondered if science and religion can co-exist? Or whether it is rational (or irrational) to believe in God? How can the story of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis be reconciled with the Big Bang? Or with evolution? What does The Lord of the Rings have to do with Jesus? And what exactly is hillbilly thomism? The intellectual tradition of the Catholic Church has been asking (and answering!) questions…

The Making of a Modern Saint: John Henry Newman on Faith and Education in a Secular Age

The Making of a Modern Saint: John Henry Newman on Faith and Education in a Secular Age

Cosponsored by Mundelein Seminary, the Archdiocese of Chicago Vocation Office, and the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. This program is made possible in part by a gift from the Paluch Family Foundation and a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Follow us on Instagram for updates about the event. Have you ever wondered why you go to school? Or what the point of it all is? What goes into making a big decision? And how do you fit together everything you know–or even the past with the future? John Henry Newman will be canonized…

How NOT To Get Away with Murder

How NOT To Get Away with Murder

Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. The book of Genesis is one of the most interesting and difficult books of the Bible. And there is so much more to it than meets the eye.  For example: When the snake approaches Eve for the first time, he asks her: “Did God really say, ‘You shall not eat from any of the trees in the garden’?”  But that isn’t what God said at all.  He told Adam, “You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good…