The Lumen Christi Institute for Catholic Thought was founded in 1997 by Catholic scholars at the University of Chicago. https://teapaw.org/t.co/6NmxW1gNmR
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Next weekend, our friends at @athenaeumcenter are bringing back "Dante 360."
With new faces & innovative designs, this year’s journey through Dante's "The Divine Comedy" brings new energy & depth to this beloved Athenaeum original.
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Advances in AI now allow us to ask: can we disrupt death? Are grief-bots & simulated grandpas the solution to the anxieties of the human condition? Last month, we hosted top scholars to discuss.
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Event made possible by @Templeton_Fdn
This afternoon, we'll host a public campus symposium, "Rehumanizing Education in an Age of AI," featuring discussion and a wine & cheese reception.
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Supported by a grant from @Templeton_Fdn and cosponsored by @IHouse_Chicago Global Voices Program
Tonight at 5pm, join us downtown for a conversation with Randy Boyagoda and Mike Murphy, featuring a cocktail hour, presentation, Q&A, and book signing of "Lords of Serendipity."
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Supported by a grant from @TempletonFdn and cosponsored by @HankCenterLUC
Congratulations to Dr. Karin Öberg of Harvard University, who was recently awarded the prestigious Pius XI Medal for her work as an astrochemist. The award is given to one promising young scientist every two years by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
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On January 20, 2018, Dr. Öberg gave a lecture with us titled "Science and Theology of Habitable Worlds Around Other Stars" at the University of Chicago Swift Hall. Click here to watch: buff.ly/8TMaeva
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!
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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