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The Lumen Christi Institute for Catholic Thought was founded by Catholic scholars at the University of Chicago in 1997 to bring the light of Christ and the Catholic intellectual and spiritual tradition to the secular academy and the general public. On this station we make available our many lectures and programs, as well as interviews with visiting scholars. To support our work, visit www.lumenchristi.org/donate
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A webinar discussion with Russell Hittinger (Lumen Christi Institute), Tracey Rowland (University of Notre Dame, Australia), and Fr. Thomas Esposito, O.Cist. (University of Dallas), moderated by Fr. Andrew Summerson (University of Toronto; Lumen Christi Institute). Originally recorded May 7, 2023.Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute, The Colleg…
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A panel discussion with Herschella Conyers(University of Chicago Law School), Darren Davis (University of Notre Dame), andBrandon Viadyanathan (Catholic University of America), moderated by Judge Thomas More Donnelly (Cook County). This event is part of the Lumen Christi Institute's Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network.---National conversation …
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An online panel discussion with Professor Grant Kaplan (Saint Louis University), Carly Osborn (University of Divinity), and Fr. Steve Grunow (Word on Fire), moderated by Cynthia Haven (National Endowment for the Humanities). While social media has become a source of meaning and identity formation for many, its dangers have become clear in recent ye…
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A webinar conversation with Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago), David Tracy (University of Chicago), and Sandra Schneiders, IHM (Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University), moderated by Willemien Otten (University of Chicago). The Crisis of Mysticism (Herder & Herder, 2021), by Bernard McGinn is the first book in English in seventy ye…
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A webinar discussion with Jennifer Frey (University of South Carolina), Russell Hittinger (Lumen Christi Institute), and Fr. Michael Sherwin, OP(University of Fribourg). Originally broadcast as a live webinar May 1, 2021The president in his inaugural address quoted Augustine of Hippo’s definition of a people as “a multitude defined by the common ob…
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A webinar conversation with Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado (University of Scranton), and Juan Soto (Gamaliel), moderated by Peter Casarella (Duke University). Originally delivered May 11, 2021. Part of a Lumen Christi Institute webinar series on Hispanic Theology.Latinx Theology has always had a dual focus on the beauty of the symbols of Popular Catho…
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A webinar conversation with Claudia Herrera (ACHTUS) and Jose Matos Auffant (St. Mary's University). Originally delivered May 4, 2021. Part of a Lumen Christi Institute webinar series on Hispanic Theology.There are complex dynamics to account for when examining the intersectionality of religious identity, social context, and the lived experience of…
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A webinar lecture with Miguel Romero (Salve Regina University). Originally delivered April 27, 2021. Part of a Lumen Christi Institute webinar series on Hispanic Theology.In the 16th century, there was a subtle shift in the way the Spanish Dominican interpreters of Thomas Aquinas spoke about the anthropological and moral significance of our rationa…
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"Globalization from the People: Fratelli Tutti and the Latino Social Teaching of Pope Francis"A webinar lecture with Prof. David Lantigua (University of Notre Dame). Delivered April 20, 2021, as part of a webinar series on Hispanic Theology, presented by the Lumen Christi Institute.The COVID-19 pandemic has been a flash point for globalization as a…
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While Saints Ambrose and Augustine never define Christian holiness, this was the pursuit that fueled all of their writings, all of their sermons, and directed their everyday lives. By examining the writings of these two pillars of the Western Church, today's talk seeks to show how Ambrose and Augustine understood holiness and what that might mean f…
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Language matters, and it matters much when sharing the best of our faith convictions with one another. Without language there is no communication, understanding or community. Sharing faith in the United States of America in an increasingly Hispanic church demands that we take questions associated with language seriously. Nearly fifteen million Cath…
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A discussion with Judge Stephanos Bibas (3rd Circuit, Court of Appeals) and William Pizzi (University of Colorado Law School), moderated by Cook County Judge Tom Donnelly.American principles of justice and equality lead our culture to value the criminal trial as a fair hearing for the accused and vindication for the victims of crime. But the realit…
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A webinar lecture with Elizabeth Lev(Duquesne University). This event is co-presented by the Harvard Catholic Forum and the Lumen Christi Institute. St. Joseph was an unassuming latecomer to the history of art, but once discovered, his images evolved rapidly to serve the Catholic Church during challenging times. From model for the papacy, to symbol…
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A webinar lecture with Fr. Thomas Esposito, O.Cist (University of Dallas). This event is cosponsored by Calvert House Catholic Center.The first recipients of St. Paul's letters did not keep their letters to themselves; as part of the organic life of the Church that Catholics call "Tradition," the letters of Paul were collected together and incorpor…
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A panel discussion with Charles Taylor (McGill University), Patrizia Nanz (German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management), and Jason Blakely (Pepperdine University), moderated by Fr. Patrick Gilger, SJ (New School for Social Research). We are experiencing a crisis of democracy more powerful than anything seen in a generation: ine…
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A webinar lecture with Fr. Mark Rotsaert, SJ, President of the Bollandist Society. This event was co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Bollandist Society. Originally broadcast as a live event March 13, 2021.In this presentation, Fr. Mark Rotsaert, SJ will look to sanctity as a gift of the Spirit and reflect on the different ways one …
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Catholic schools serve close to 62 million students globally at the preschool, primary, and secondary levels, with in addition more than 6 million students enrolled at the post-secondary level. By managing the largest non-governmental network of schools and universities in the world, the Catholic Church plays an important role in efforts to achieve…
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Lecture with Patrick Geary (Institute for Advanced Study), delivered Feb 13, 2021. This event was co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Bollandist Society, and co-sponsored by America Media, the Collegium Institute, the Harvard Catholic Forum, the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, the Nova Forum, the Institute for A…
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Review and lecture from a master class with Russell Hittinger, Delivered in December of 2020.The tradition of natural law is one of the foundations of Western civilization. At its heart is the conviction that there is an objective and universal justice which transcends humanity’s particular expressions of justice. It asserts that there are certain …
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A lecture by Fr. John O'Malley, SJ (Georgetown University), followed by Q&A. The ideal of educating the total human person – the project that took on the name “humanism” - became a widespread norm for education in the Christian world of early modern Europe, whence it spread to North and South America. This humanist ideal has competed for influence …
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A presentation by Quentin Wodon (International Office of Catholic Education), followed by discussion with Annie Smith (Director of Research and Data, National Catholic Education Association), Andrew Miller (Boston College), and Timothy Uhl (Superintendent, Catholic Schools for Montana). Catholic schools and universities aim to educate the whole per…
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A webinar lecture with Professor Bronwen McShea (Augustine Institute; Institute on Religion and Public Life). Originally delivered on January 7, 2021. This event was co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Bollandist Society.In this talk, we will examine side by side the lives and legacies of two major saints of French Catholicism's sev…
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A panel discussion with Kenneth Woodward (Lumen Christi Institute), Peter Wehner (Ethics and Public Policy Center), and William McCready (University of Michigan), moderated by Joseph Capizzi (Catholic University of America). Originally presented as a live web event December 16, 2020.The 2020 presidential race seemed to highlight the central role of…
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A webinar lecture with John L. Allen, Jr. (Crux)The pandemic of 2020 has disrupted the sacraments and public worship, scattered communities, and put local churches into new, sometimes strained, relationships with civil authorities. The Church has also been a significant actor in the crisis, offering relief services and spiritual care on a massive s…
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A conversation with George Dennis O'Brien (University of Rochester) and Mark Alznauer (Northwestern University). John F. Kennedy once quipped that a Catholic would be president of the United States before a Catholic would be president of Harvard. As the Catholic president of two secular universities, Dennis O’Brien was a trailblazer. In this interv…
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A webinar panel discussion with theologian, Margaret Pfeil (University of Notre Dame), and economists Bruce Weber (Oregon State), and Craig Gundersen (University of Illinois), moderated by economist Chris Barrett (Cornell University). Food insecurity has become a leading indicator of well-being in the U.S. due to the tens of millions of food insecu…
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A webinar lecture with Fr. Sam Z. Conedera, S.J. (Saint Louis University). Originally broadcast as a live web event on December 1, 2020, marking the feast day of St. Edmund Campion. This program was presented with the Bollandist Society."The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God; it cannot be withstood." With these bold words E…
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A discussion with Professor Zena Hitz (St. John's College), moderated by Professor Jared Ortiz (Hope College). Originally broadcast as a live online event November 10, 2020.In a world where efficiency and utility are the standards by which we measure success, how do we appreciate what resists quantification? And at a moment of institutional change …
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"Quo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology, a Pastoral Perspective for the 21st Century"A webinar lecture with Metropolitan Borys Gudziak (Archeparchy of Philadelphia, Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA). Part of a webinar series. "Eastern Catholic Theology in Action," presented by the Lumen Christi Institute, the Godbearer Institute,…
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A webinar lecture with Fr. John O'Malley, SJ. Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute, the Bollandist Society, and America Media. Originally delivered as a live webinar on November 1, 2020.Few Christian practices are as ancient and widely popular as veneration of the saints. It is appropriate on this Feast of All Saints to review that history, con…
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An online panel discussion with Russell Hittinger (Lumen Christi Institute) and Joseph Capizzi (Catholic University of America), moderated by Jennifer Frey (University of South Carolina). Originally broadcast October 27, 2020.Who is my neighbor? Who is my brother and sister? Drawing on central gospel themes found in the Good Samaritan narrative, Po…
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A webinar lecture with Stephen M. Barr (University of Delaware), presented by the Harvard Catholic Forum and the Lumen Christi Institute. Originally broadcast on October 15, 2020.For thousands of years, some philosophers and scientists have argued that order in the universe points to a creator God. How does this argument hold up against the scienti…
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A panel discussion with Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations; Joseph Donnelly, Delegate of Caritas Internationalis to the UN; and Mary Ann Glendon, former US ambassador to the Holy See and expert in human rights, and is moderated by Paolo Carozza (Notre Dame). This event was originally broadcast as a …
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A panel discussion with Willis Jenkins (University of Virginia), Benjamin de Foy (Saint Louis University), and Simone Kotva (Emmanuel College). Originally broadcast as a live webinar October 16, 2020.In 2000, scientists argued that human impact on the Earth reached levels meriting the creation of a new geological epoch, naming it the Anthropocene. …
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A webinar lecture with Professor Erin Walsh (University of Chicago).Through the work of editing and translating Syriac manuscripts, scholars continue to enrich our historiography of the formative centuries of Christianity. This research has been particularly fruitful in the areas of biblical interpretation, asceticism, the history of doctrine, and …
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"Eastern Churches, Latin Territories: Ecclesial Catholicity and the Notion of Diaspora." A webinar lecture by Fr. Alexander Laschuk (University of St. Michael's College; University of Toronto). Delivered Septemeber 24, 2020 as part of a webinar series on Eastern Catholic Theology in Action," co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Godbe…
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"Christ the Lover of Mankind: Philanthropia, Mystery, and Martyria in Eastern Christianity"A webinar lecture with Robin Darling Young (Catholic University of America), originally delivered September 17, 2020. Presented as part of a series on "Eastern Catholic Theology in Action," co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Godbearer Institu…
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A webinar lecture with Andrew Hayes (University of St. Thomas, Houston). This event is presented in collaboration with the Godbearer Institute as part of a Fall webinar lecture series on "Eastern Catholic Theology in Action."St. Ephrem is the common teacher of the Syriac theological tradition whose preferred medium is poetry. Named a doctor of the …
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A webinar lecture with Dcn. Daniel Galadza (University of Regensburg) This event is presented in collaboration with the Godbearer Institute as part of a Fall webinar lecture series on "Eastern Catholic Theology in Action."From the fourth to eighth centuries, liturgical commentaries flourished to explain the meaning of the sacramental life of the Ch…
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A webinar lecture with Peter Casarella (Duke University), originally delivered August 18, 2020. Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus SocietyHistorian Jacob Burckhardt (d. 1897) famously argued that Italian humanism of the fourteent…
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An webinar lecture with Professor Torrance Kirby (McGill University), delivered August 11, 2020. Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus SocietyRichard Hooker (1554-1600) was a preeminent theologian and philosopher of the Elizabethan …
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A webinar lecture with Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge, originally delivered August 4, 2020. Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society. The Cambridge Platonists are the first modern Platonists. They are a group of Englis…
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A webinar panel featuring Andrew J. Bacevich (Boston University), Archbishop Timothy Broglio (Archdiocese of the Military Services, USA), and Drew Christiansen, S.J. (Georgetown University), moderated by Joseph Capizzi (Catholic University of America). The event was initially broadcast on August 6, 2020, on the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hi…
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A webinar lecture with Valentina Zaffino (Pontifical Lateran University; Rome Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus SocietyGiordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, philoso…
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A webinar lecture with Richard Oosterhoff (University of Edinburgh). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society---Perspective drawing, map-making, musical harmonics, astronomy, and number theory—these were all mathematical discip…
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An evening webinar lecture with Tamara Albertini (University of Hawai'i at Manoa). Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus Society After a brief review of women humanists like Laura Cerata, Cassandra Fedele, Lucrezia Marinella, and Is…
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A webinar with Professor Denis Robichaud (University of Notre Dame), originally presented June 30, 2020. Part of our summer webinar series on "Reason and Beauty in Renaissance Christian Thought and Culture," presented in collaboration with the American Cusanus SocietyIn the humanist recovery and study of Platonic thought and texts, Marsilio Ficino …
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Cosponsored by the Society of Catholic Scientists. This event is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.Does evolution fully explain the human? Recent paleontological and archeological work trace the deep lineages underlying many of our physical traits, and reveals our complicated history as one of many hominid species. It is a…
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