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Interview with Kara Lamb, PhD Student in Physics
What is your area of study and what is the focus of your current research? I am working on a PhD in Physics, and my research focuses on understanding the microphysical processes governing ice formation...
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Grace in a Dark and Gritty Reality: Divinity School Professor on Flannery...
“I first got interested in Flannery O’Connor in 1980 because I started doing work on religion and literature and everyone asked me if I had read O’Connor and I hadn’t,” says Richard Rosengarten—former...
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A Law Scholar's Passion for Human Rights
Paolo Carozza has made it his life’s mission to articulate the Church’s vision of human rights in classrooms around the world—teaching currently at Notre Dame Law School but having also taught at...
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An Interview with Catholic Relief Services CEO Carolyn Woo
Carolyn Woo, most recently served as dean of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business prior to her current position as CEO and President of Catholic Relief Services. At Lumen Christi Institute’s...
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Jean Bethke Elshtain, American ethicist, political philosopher, and public...
Jean Bethke Elshtain, an American ethicist, political philosopher, and public intellectual, died Sunday, August 11th after suffering from a debilitating heart condition. She was 72. Elshtain, who was...
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Beauty Will Save the World
In talk on “Why Beauty Matters,” Poet Dana Gioia invokes Dostoevsky “The experience of the beautiful is powerful and universal. People are transfixed by beauty.” In the presence of beauty, “they feel a...
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Pope Francis: Servant of the Poor
Anna Bonta Moreland (Left) and Fr. Brian Daley (Right) discuss the impact of Pope Francis on the Church and the world. Symposium discusses how the First Non-European Pope brings the poor and...
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A Sustained Pursuit of the Truth in a Soundbite Culture
New Board Member Scott Turicchi Shares Why Lumen Christi’s Presence is Essential in Today’s Society “We live in a soundbite culture,” says Scott Turicchi. Can you say something in 30 seconds? Can you...
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Called to Serve Others
Peruvian Theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez Tells Students: You Cannot Have Contemplation without Action Gustavo Gutiérrez is cheerful and witty and frequently gesticulates to get across his message: we...
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Cardinal George’s Legacy
Saw the Importance of the Intellectual Apostolate for the Task of Evangelization For the past seventeen years, Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop Emeritus of Chicago, devoted himself to...
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In Memoriam: Steven G. Rothmeier
Long-Serving Lumen Christi Institute Board Chair, Former Northwest Airlines CEO, and University of Chicago Trustee 1946-2014 Steven G. Rothmeier—a successful businessman who rose to CEO at Northwest...
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The Attraction of Asceticism
U of C Grad Creates Documentary Film That Gives a Unique View of the Life of Cloistered Monastic Nuns Abbie Reese will be giving a talk on her book and documentary film-in-progress this Thursday,...
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Begin with the Beautiful
Fr. Robert Barron Offers Seven Ways to Share the Gospel Fr. Robert Barron is one of the Church’s leading evangelists. But he doesn’t want to remain in the slim ranks of those who shoulder this burden....
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Do Economics and Theology Have Anything to Say to Each Other?
Mary Hirschfeld Suggests Economists and Theologians Have a Fundamentally Different Understanding of the Human Person On hearing about the invention of the magnetic telegraph, Henry David Thoreau...
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Interview with Dominic Chiu, Third-Year Economics and Philosophy Undergraduate
“The Institute is a crucial provider of Catholic intellectual resources at a secular campus like the University of Chicago. Its capability to invite prominent intellectuals and religious figures from...
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Archbishop Cupich Returns to Chicago
While many in Chicago are learning about their newly appointed archbishop, Blase Joseph Cupich wasn’t new to Lumen Christi when he was installed as the ninth Archbishop of Chicago in Holy Name...
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Interview with Catherine Duggan, Third-Year Philosophy Undergraduate
“Students who love discussing the finer points of the Catholic intellectual tradition can delve into them in great depth at Lumen Christi events and have the opportunity to speak to scholars...
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LCI Board Member and U of C Grad Becomes 40th Governor of Nebraska
[From Left to Right] Governor Pete Ricketts, his wife Susanne, and Executive Director of the Lumen Christi Institute Thomas Levergood Lumen Christi Institute Board Member and University of Chicago...
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Interview with Austin Walker, Ph.D. Student, John U. Nef Committee on Social...
“Lumen Christi keeps alive the possibility of a harmonization (or at least a productive tension) between humanistic and scientific inquiry in the modern university.” What is your area of study and what...
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Soul Searching: Aquinas Scholar and U of C Alum Stephen L. Brock Helps...
Fr. Brock gives a lecture on “Aquinas’s Third Way of Proving a God: Logic or Love?” at the University of Chicago in February 2015 American philosopher Allan Bloom received wide recognition for his 1987...
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