“Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Liberty, 50 Years Later”
Cosponsored by The Department of History and The St. Thomas More Society At the third plenary session of Vatican II, Fr. John Courtney Murray said that the issue of religious liberty [is] the American issue at the Council. Yet it took the longest to write, and, after undergoing thousands of comments and corrections over four years, it was signed by Pope Paul VI less than twenty-four hours before the Council was adjourned. This lecture will consider, (1) the reasons for this Declaration on Religious Liberty and the difficulties and debates at the Council, and (2) how the doctrine of religious liberty has fared…
Conference on Christian Legal Thought, New Orleans
Saturday, January 5, 2013, 1 PM to 6:15 PM Wyndham Riverfront New Orleans 701 Convention Center Boulevard New Orleans, LA 70130 Conference Topic: The Statement on the Nature of Law from Evangelicals and Catholics Conference Schedule 1:00 PM: Registration (coffee available) 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM: Session One: Christian Perspectives on the Nature of Law Chair: Michael Moreland (Villanova University School of Law) William Brewbaker III (University of Alabama School of Law) Nora O’Callaghan (Loyola University Chicago School of Law) David Skeel (University of Pennsylvania Law School) 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM: Coffee Break 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Session Two: Non-Christian Perspectives on…
“The Theologico-Political Problem Today”
Co-sponsored by the History of Christianity Club For three hundred years the modern nation-state appeared to determine the relationship between politics and religion. Indeed, the modern state was devised to solve this troubled relation. This is no longer the case. The present weakness of nations in discerning matters religious and theological, along with its cool disinterest in religion, presents a particular crisis for the Church. This lecture will consider the history of the theologico-political problem and address the condition of three essential institutions: marriage, polity and church.
Panel Discussion on “Natural Law in Court”
REGISTER HERE $25 Registration / Free for Current Students and Faculty / 1 CLE CREDIT for an additional fee of $10 This program has been approved by the Illinois MCLE Board for 1 hour of General CLE credit. Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago and the Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Join us for a reception and panel discussion of the recent book by R. H. Helmholz, Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice (Harvard University Press, 2015). Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Until very recently, lawyers in the…
Trinity Lutheran and the Future of Public Funding for Religious Entities: A Conversation with Richard Garnett and Andrew Koppelman
Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild, the Decalogue Society of Lawyers, the Christian Legal Society, the American Constitution Society, the Federalist Society, the Notre Dame Program on Church, State & Society, and Jenner & Block Chicago. Should a religious institution be denied public funding solely because it is owned and operated by a religious entity? The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer decided that the state of Missouri violated the Free Exercise Clause by disqualifying a religious school from a state program. In this conversation, law scholars Richard Garnett and Andrew Koppelman will discuss the reasoning employed by the…
Judging as Judgment
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 event, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago, the Decalogue Society of Lawyers, the Christian Legal Society, the Jewish Judges Association, and Jenner & Block LLP. When a case is easy, judges can act like umpires. But when a case is hard, judges cannot simply apply the rules – they have to exercise judgment. We pretend that judges don’t make law in order to…
Faith and Politics: Reflections of a Catholic Legislator
Open to current university students and faculty. Lunch will be served. Join the Lumen Christi Institute and the Center for Latin American Studies for a lunch discussion with Ignacio Walker, academic and former Chilean Secretary of State (2004-2006), on his current project entitled “Faith and Politics.” He will share reflections from his experience on negotiating faith commitments as a Catholic politician in a modern, secular, democratic, pluralistic society.
Can Transcendence be Organized? The Catholic Church Between Universalism and Establishment
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Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Committee on Social Thought and the Theology Club. If a religion differentiates itself from the culture of specific peoples, states, or empires and represents the ideal of moral universalism and an understanding of transcendence, it cannot evade the problem of self-organization. While this is true of all “post-axial” religions, this lecture restricts itself to the Christian Church and other forms of the social organization of Christians (sect, denomination etc.). A comparison between the Catholic Church and these other forms and an understanding of their interaction in the history of Christianity is…
CANCELED: A Master Class on the Social and Political Thought of Pope Benedict XVI
Due to travel restrictions in light of the spread of COVID-19, Msgr. Schallenberg will not be traveling to the US and thus will not be available to lead a master class. This event has been canceled, and we look forward to rescheduling this event for a later date. — Open to current students, faculty, and staff. Copies of the reading will be provided to registrants. Schedule: 9:30am Coffee & Pastries 10:00am Session I 11:25am Break 11:35am Session II 1:00pm End, lunch
CANCELED: Panel on Joseph Singer’s “Persuasion”
Due to restrictions put in place in response to the spread of COVID-19, this event has been postponed. We look forward to scheduling similar programming in the future. Lawyers have techniques to persuade decision-makers about what the law should be, using arguments based on common values, storytelling, and framing to help us see our own values in a new light. These tools of reasoned argument enable us to engage in civil debate about divisive issues and to justify decisions in hard cases. Joseph Singer’s book, Persuasion: Getting to the Other Side, categorizes the arguments that lawyers use in debates about ambiguous…