Winter Newman Forum Conference for High School Students: A How-To Guide for Life
REGISTER BELOW Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute’s Newman Forum. Open to current high school students. For more information, please contact Margaux Taffet at newmanforum@lumenchristi.org. Is there a “Catholic” way to read literature? To watch baseball? To pray? To use AI? As you prepare for college and life as an adult, join us at Mundelein for a day full of short “how-to” guides to doing the big and the small, the serious and the silly, as a Catholic. For the 2026 Newman Forum Winter Conference, high school students will gather at University of St. Mary of the Lake to…
Newman Forum Summer Institute | There and Back Again: The Adventures of Heroes, Saints, and Pilgrims
All rising high school freshman through recent high school senior graduates are welcome to apply for this multi-day long seminar and leadership program. In the mornings, Jennifer and Jay Martin, professors at the University of Notre Dame, will lead the students through classic texts, and in the afternoons they will participate in activities which will help integrate these themes.
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.
Newman Forum Summer Institute | There and Back Again: The Adventures of Pilgrims, Heroes, and Saints
Winter Newman Forum Conference for High School Students: Science, Science Fiction, and God
Newman Forum Summer Institute | Truth, Beauty, and Goodness: The Transcendentals in Philosophy and Theology
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.
What Really Happens When… You Attend the High School Newman Forum?
What really happens when you baptize a baby? When you protest nonviolently? When you remember? On March 1, over 250 high school students gathered to explore these questions and more as part of the annual Winter Newman Forum Conference.
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…