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  • The Creation of the St. Irenaeus Institute: A Summer Seminar Story

    The concrete impetus for the St. Irenaeus Institute was a Lumen Christi summer seminar in 2021 on Irenaeus’ Against the Heresies (co-led by Fr. John Behr and Lewis Ayres), which we both attended. Joshua excitedly shared some insights from the seminar with seminarians from his hometown of Milwaukee, and they expressed a desire for a forum to learn more about Irenaeus and his work. Thus, the Fides Patrum (“Faith of the Fathers”) seminar was launched in September 2021 at the local Newman Center at UW-Milwaukee. 

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  • Interview with John Boyer, Professor of History and Former Dean of the College (University of Chicago)

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  • Meet Our Students: Nicklin Fellows Program

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  • Can We Be Good on Our Own? A Symposium on Ancient and Modern Approaches to Virtue

    Can we be good on our own, or do we need divine assistance? Four scholars explored this question in a symposium that was the highlight of LCI’s spring University Program Series. With Emily Austin (University of Chicago) moderating, Angela Knobel (University of Dallas), Candace Vogler (University of Chicago), and Daniel Lapsley (University of Notre Dame) reflected on the relationship between Aristotle’s and Aquinas’ moral frameworks from theological, philosophical, practical, and behavioral-scientific perspectives.   

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New station delivers lectures and interviews with our visiting scholars as downloadable audio content 

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Important security update regarding online giving to the Lumen Christi Institute

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Anders Cardinal Arborelius has established himself as a strong leader of Sweden's Catholic minority

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Lumen Christi prepares to welcome acclaimed New York Times Catholic op-ed columnist

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University of Chicago Students Visit Art Institute’s “Doctrine and Devotion” Exhibit 

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Joe Ricketts Discusses his Cloisters on the Platte Project

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Fr. David Meconi, S.J, Shares How Human Love Helps Us Understand Divine Love & Embody It

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Catholic Scientists from Around the World Meet in Chicago To Discuss Origins of the Universe, Habitable Planets, and Human Language

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Bernard McGinn spends most of his time with books. He rises at 7am, “not terribly early,” he says, works through the morning, and ends his scholarly research with a run to the library around 5pm. Before bed, he prefers reading books unrelated to his scholarship on mysticism. He enjoys reading novels or books on history. He has just finished reading a novel by the Irish writer Sebastian Barry and a historical account of railroad construction in the Florida Keys.

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Award-Winning Author and Veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps Phil Klay on War, Our Collective Complicity, and the Senselessness of Suffering

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“We English majors were fortunate in the timing of our intellectual coming of age as Catholic.” Kenneth L. Woodward, longtime Religion Editor at Newsweek, is profiled.

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