The Lumen Christi Institute for Catholic Thought was founded in 1997 by Catholic scholars at the University of Chicago. https://teapawt.org/t.co/6NmxW1gNmR
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The responsibility for teaching, sanctifying, and governing within the Church is most fully given to the bishops. However, all Catholics share in these offices as members of the Body of Christ. In what manner, then, is a lay Catholic called to teach, to sanctify, and to govern?
Join us next Saturday, Nov. 14 for our Fall Monastery Visit, where Fr. Peter Funk, OSB will lead us in exploring "The Lay Catholic as Prophet, Priest, and King."
Learn more and register at lumenchristi.org/monastery
Cosponsored by @CalvertHouse
Next Thurs, Nov 5, we'll host our downtown event "Affirming the Human Person in the Age of AI: A Novel Approach" with @uoft's Randy Boyagoda, author of "Lords of Serendipity." Joining him in conversation is Michael P. Murphy, Director of @HankCenterLUC.
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The program will include a cocktail hour, discussion, & book signing. Registration includes a copy of "Lords of Serendipity," named a Best Book of Fall 2026. Learn more about the novel at buff.ly/SHKcvCs
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From earliest times, Christians have felt a strong need to maintain contact with the remains of especially holy persons who had died in the faith - from the first-century Christians who venerated martyrs to the pilgrims who flock to the relics of saints today. This lecture explores a dramatic history of competition and dispute in which both ordinary lay persons and esteemed religious organizations expressed this need to hold on to the sanctified dead.
Join us on Thursday, November 5 at 6 PM EST for "Saints Do Not Rest in Peace: The Afterlife of Relics" by Patrick Geary (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton)
Join us tonight for our next WSCCS lecture!
Drawing on interviews with grief counselors and chaplains alongside St. Augustine and the Catholic intellectual tradition, Dr. Cassandra Sever will explore what grief reveals about love and its right ordering.
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Today at 5pm, we're hosting our 2026 Bollandist lecture, "Canonizing Canines?: A Dog 'Saint' and Medieval Christians," at Loyola Academy in Wilmette. We hope to see you there!
Learn more and register at buff.ly/UnJ47y4.
Last month, Daniel Wasserman-Soler, our Executive Director, kicked off our West Suburban Catholic Culture Series with a lecture on how to pray.
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Listen: buff.ly/AEbLCN9
Join us for next week's WSCCS lecture: buff.ly/jk87OnS
Tonight, the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network Dialogue (CCJRN) will host an invite-only dialogue to bring together those responsible for our criminal justice system & those most directly impacted by it.
Learn more at lumenchristi.org/StLouisDial… and lumenchristi.org/ccjrn-home.
How might the contemporary academy best ensure the continued development of an authentically human education while also best utilizing new AI tools?
Join us on Friday, Nov. 6 at our public symposium at UChicago to learn more.
lumenchristi.org/rehumanize
What might the Catholic tradition have to say about how we should live with loss?
Next Wednesday, join us for a lecture by Dr. Cassandra Sever, a postdoc at Lumen Christi, during the second session of this year's West Suburban Catholic Culture Series.
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JOB OPENING: Lumen Christi is hiring part-time student workers!
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What does it mean to love?
In 2014, @BishopBarron (then-Fr. Barron), an original member of our Board of Directors, gave a lecture titled "Pope Francis and the New Evangelization," cosponsored by @WordOnFire.
Watch the full video here: buff.ly/z1dU79M
Undergraduate students, join us at 6pm tonight for our first session of "A Visit to Nowhere: Reading Thomas More’s 'Utopia'," our fall Fundamental Questions Seminar.
Dinner will be provided.
Register at buff.ly/xs2ScTx.
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Today, we celebrate the Memorial of St. Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church.
In 2019, Dr. Carlos Eire gave a lecture on her autobiography, "The Life," inspired by his own biography of the incomparable spiritual masterpiece.
Watch here: buff.ly/HMiSGSl
Graduate students are invited to join us tonight at 7:30pm for the first reading group on Randy Boyagoda's "Lords of Serendipity," a novel that arrives as universities face profound questions about their purpose, value, and future.
Learn more & register: buff.ly/iHqleiv
Early this evening, our undergraduate reading group will dive into Dante's "Purgatorio" during its first session of the quarter. The group will focus on the text as a poem, and on poetry as a medium more broadly.
To register, visit lumenchristi.org/purgatorio.
Yesterday was the first session of our graduate & undergraduate reading group "Lord of the Rings," which will span all three academic quarters.
It's not too late to join! Learn more & register at lumenchristi.org/lotr.
Tonight! UChicago undergraduates are invited to join us for a screening and discussion of Kurosawa's "Rashōmon." Dinner and popcorn will be provided.
Sign up at lumenchristi.org/film.
A dog... a saint?
This talk will explore the veneration of ‘Saint’ Guinefort, a greyhound said to have lived a heroic life in 13th-century France.
While the Church does not name dogs as saints – then or now – this case raises interesting questions.
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