University Club of Chicago

$60 General / $600 Host Committee Member Since publishing Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics in 2012, Ross Douthat’s commentary on American religious culture has established him as a prominent and thoughtful critic. This lecture will describe the three "world pictures" that dominate American religiosity: the biblical, spiritual, and secular. As these world pictures jockey for cultural dominance, interesting questions arise. Can the biblical world picture gain ground? Will the secular world picture carry the day? Will the spiritual world picture be forced to give way to one of its more inflexible alternatives? These and other questions will...

Join us for a reception to celebrate the recently released book A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope that Lies Within (CUA Press, 2015) by the late Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. on the one-year anniversary of his passing. Finished by Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. nine days before his death, A Godly Humanismoffers an account of the Catholic intellectual life by one of the most gifted thinkers to serve as bishop in the American Church. It draws on figures such as St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI to express a vision of the Church as a communion built...

Due to unforeseen personal reasons, Carol Zaleski’s visit has been postponed. We hope to reschedule this event for a future date. with co-authors Philip & Carol Zaleski REGISTER HERE $50 General/ $15 Student/ $500 Table Sponsorship At this luncheon event, authors Philip and Carol Zaleski will discuss their book The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams. For three decades, C.S. Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia), J.R.R. Tolkien (author of The Lord of the Rings), and their closest associates met weekly in Oxford pubs as a literary club known as the Inklings. This...

Randy Boyagoda (author of Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square) Cosponsored by First Things, the Chicago Leadership Forum, and Relevant Radio For all the political controversies that Fr. Richard John Neuhaus was involved in over his four decades in American public life, and these were many, he really understood his work in vocational terms. In other words, he understood his work foremost as the work of a man of God. It’s too simple to dismiss him (or admire him!) as a Republican in a Roman collar, as many of his later critics and fans did. Learn the full...

An event for legal scholars and law students cosponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Law Professors’ Christian Fellowship. FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 4:00-7:00PM University Club of Washington, DC 1135 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 with Barbara E. Armacost (University of Virginia Law School) Robert Vischer (University of St. Thomas School of Law) REGISTER HERE This event is intended for legal scholars and law students. Others interested in attending, please contact info@lumenchristi.org or 773-955-5887. EVENT SCHEDULE: 4:00 “The Vocation of a Christian Lawyer” with Barbara E. Armacost & Robert Vischer 5:15 Vespers, Fr. Paul K. Rourke, S.J. 5:45 Reception

Anna Bonta Moreland (Villanova University) In this luncheon presentation, Argentinian-born theologian Anna Bonta Moreland employs Pope Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (Joy of the Gospel) as a roadmap to the Pope’s vision for the Church and the Christian life as a call to evangelization.  She  shows how the Apostolic Exhortation is representative of how Pope Francis thinks through most issues.