Faith & Science Minicourse: Catholic Engagement with the Modern Sciences (Fall 2023)
Faith and Reason in the Modern University Minicourse (Fall 2023)
(Free!) Local Field Trip for UVA students
Holy Women of the Americas Lunch Discussion Series
September 17, 2023 (Online Public Lecture)
Bishop Robert Barron
"The Catholic Intellectual Tradition"
Missed this Event: watch it here.
The Catholic Intellectual Tradition offers an immensely rich, 2,000-year-old way of thinking about God, Nature, Society, and the Human Person. This tradition invites us to appreciate the historical continuity of the Church's beliefs and practices as well as the reality of the communion of holy men and women who have aided the Church in Her thinking across the ages. The Catholic intellectual tradition is not today's fleeting and disjointed stream of TikTok videos, but a fuller and more integrated way of seeking answers to our enduring questions about the Source and existence of all things visible and invisible as well as the meaning of our experiences and the purposes of our lives. The tradition's way of thinking flows from its Christology--that is, our understanding of who Jesus Christ is. As St. Bonaventure once summarized this central point: the Church began with the powerful experiences and wisdom of "simple fishermen, and it was enriched by distinguished and wise teachers" who carried the tradition forwarded, but it is Christ who was and is at the center of all knowledge, learning and wisdom, including every academic interest pursued within the modern university. In our highly fragmented world defined by its chaotic and ever-changing set of expressions, the Catholic intellectual tradition distinguishes itself from the alienation, disjointedness and popular noise of today by maintaining there is a common, unifying Source of every truth. This Source, as revealed in the Gospel of John, is Christ the Logos Who was “In the Beginning,” Who is the “Life” and “the Light that shines in the darkness” for “all humankind."
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Catholic Forum, the Collegium Institute @ UPenn, COLLIS Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture @ Cornell University, Nova Forum for Catholic Thought @ University of Southern California, and the Lumen Christi Institute @ University of Chicago.
June 5-11, 2023: Monastic Wisdom Seminar, "The Schola Caritatis"
The Lumen Christi Institute, the St. Anselm Institute and Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, a Trappistine monastery located near Crozet, Virginia are partnering for the first time to organize a retreat that explores the monastic wisdom tradition. The Trappistine Community at Crozet, Virginia lives according to a continual tradition of Christian monasticism with its roots in the Cistercian Tradition. This seminar will offer the possibility of not only learning the guiding principles that foster a good and balanced life according to the monastic tradition, but of putting them into practice, since it is experience alone that leads not only to correct understanding but to real wisdom.
After reading some core texts in the monastic tradition in advance, participants will then spend a week praying, working, reading, and learning from the Sisters during two daily conferences and other times of sharing and mutual exchange.
May 25, 2023 Seminar
We know we live in a world dominated by technology, big data, and predictive algorithms that few understand and even fewer design or control. Contemporary secular ethics has litte to say about our lack of agency, understanding or the collective and individual responsibilities we bear for the consequences of our modern world. Is Christianity and its life-affirming purposes simply mute about all of this, as if there's nothing for us to see or to consider about present or future conditions? Join us as we engage invited Catholic University of America Professor Paul Scherz on the most significant topic of his latest book. Tomorrow's Troubles: Risk, Anxiety, and Prudence in an Age of Algorithmic Governance.
Interested in joining this seminar, email Dr. Charles Kromkowski (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
This seminar is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation.
2023 Catholic Novel Reading Group
Javier Herrero (1926-1923)
April 14, 2023: Holy Women of the Americas Lunch Discussion
St. Théodore Guérin (1798-1851)
Bring a friend and come to meet someone new as everyone is invited to join us for friendly conversation, a free lunch, and an introduction to the educational pioneer St. Theodore Guerin, a holy example of perseverance, ingenuity and missionary zeal despite family tragedies, personal health difficulties, and the resentful political, social and even ecclesiastical forces of her times.
Help us with the lunch order by registering today. We'll meet In UVA Bryan Hall-Room 235 on Friday, April 14 at 12:30pm for lunch, with discussion of Guerin's life and works beginning @ 1:00pm.
Questions? Please email Meaghan Brennan (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
St. Hilary, On the Trinity Reading Group (Spring 2023)
Belief in the Holy Trinity clearly distinguishes Christianity from every other system of beliefs, and yet can we describe it as something more than a beautiful Mystery? Join us for 6 Friday lunch seminars as we search for an answer in St. Hilary's classic 4th-century text De Trinitate/On the Trinity. A light lunch will be provided and UVA students and faculty will receive a free copy of the text.
March 18, 2023 Public Lecture
UVA Graduate Student Quaecumque Vera Fellowship Group
March 2, 2023 Public Lecture
Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P.
Can Rule by AI be Like Rule by a God?
Please join us as we warmly welcome the return of Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P. on Thursday, March 2, 2023. From 2014 until 2021, Fr. Ambrose was in residence at St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish as a graduate student in Philosophy at UVA. He completed his Ph.D. in 2021 and was appointed Assistant Director of the Thomistic Institute in Washington, D.C.
This public lecture is free and open to all, so invite a friend and come to meet others who are interested in thinking about how the Catholic intellectual tradition can inform our understanding of the modern world.