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An Inquiry into the Value of Work: A Discussion of Matt Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

REGISTER HERE 5:30 Cocktail and Hors d’Oeuvres  |   6:30 Opening Remarks   |   6:45 Dialogue and Q&A   |   7:30 End   Through the generosity of LCI's donors, undergraduate and graduate students are able to attend this event for free. Interested students should email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org to register. This event is cosponsored at The Point Magazine. Published in 2009, Matthew […]

What is Ideology? A Conversation

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

“Ideology” is a word in near-ubiquitous use: it is deployed to describe everything from religious identity (‘the ideology of the Cross’) and political principle (‘the contest between woke and MAGA ideology’) to gastronomic preferences (‘the ideology of meat in US culture’). Being used so widely and vaguely, does this word still hold a meaning? In […]

What is Ideology? A Conversation with Mark Shiffman and James Matthew Wilson

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

5:30 Cocktail and Hors d’Oeuvres  |   6:30 Opening Remarks   |   6:45 Dialogue and Q&A   |   7:30 End   Co-presented by Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute, dedicated to renewing the culture through thoughtful reflections on education, family, and religion. Supported by Wiseblood Books. Discounted student tickets are available. Please contact Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org for more information on […]

Dante the Theologian: Ken Woodward Interviews Denys Turner

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

12:00 Welcome, Blessing, Lunch is Served   |   12:30 Interview   |   1:30 End  REGISTRATION OPENS ON MARCH 1 The dress code for the University Club can be consulted here, and parking information here. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org. All agree: Dante Alighieri was a great poet. But Denys Turner insists that he was also a […]

Dante the Theologian: A Conversation

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

12:00 Welcome, Blessing, Lunch is Served   |   12:30 Interview   |   1:30 End  REGISTER HERE The dress code for the University Club can be consulted here, and parking information here. For questions, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org. All agree: Dante Alighieri was a great poet. The Divine Comedy stands as a masterwork of Western literature, integrating theology, […]

Catholic Lawyers Guild Speaker Series | Luncheon with Sr. Helen Prejean

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

Registration required. This event is presented by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago and co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Hank Center of Loyola University Chicago. To find out more, visit https://www.clgchicago.org/events. Sister Helen Prejean, who is known around the world for her tireless work against the death penalty, will be joining Catholic Lawyers […]

Lessons from the Past to Heal the Future: A Perspective on healing Ukraine post-war

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

This event is open to the public. Registration is required. Please contact info@lumenchristi.org with any questions. As a Church historian, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak has dedicated his vocation to transcribing and articulating the experience of the underground Church in Ukraine during the 20th century. These lessons of perseverance and adherence to the gospel—embodying the cross, death and resurrection—form the foundation […]

The Vocation of the Patristic Theologian: Inheriting the Voice of Early Christians

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

This forum and reception, following the annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society, is co-sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. This forum invites graduate students and scholars of patristics to reflect on the nature of the craft and its relationship to contemporary theological studies, the academy, and […]

A Life in Service of the Truth: The Legacy of Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

Fr. Paul Mankowski (1953 – 2020) was a brilliant essayist, a singular wit, and a devoted son of the Church. Born in South Bend, Indiana, he put himself through the University of Chicago while working summers in a steel mill. Called to a vocation with the Society of Jesus, Fr. Paul entered the novitiate in […]

Faith and Science at Notre Dame: Fr. John Zahm, Evolution, and the Catholic Church

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

The Reverend John Augustine Zahm, CSC, (1851--1921) was a Holy Cross priest, an author, a South American explorer, and a science professor and vice president at the University of Notre Dame, the latter at the age of twenty-five. Through his scientific writings, Zahm argued that Roman Catholicism was fully compatible with an evolutionary view of […]

Flannery O’Connor and the Vision of Grace

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

Flannery O’Connor is one of the most celebrated American fiction writers.  Yet she has often been misunderstood by the very critics who praise her.  O’Connor was sometimes called a hillbilly nihilist, but she responded that she was simply “a hillbilly Thomist.” In this talk, Dr. Frey explores the action of divine grace in the short stories […]

The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila

University Club of Chicago 76 E Monroe St Chicago, IL 60603, Downtown, IL

This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. A luncheon talk with Professor Carlos Eire (Yale) on the recent book on the life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever written: The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila. Saint Teresa of Avila’s […]