Mr. Blue Performance, Saturday February 25th
Reserved tickets required.
Spring 2023 Minicourses
*Spring 2023: Beauty and the Catholic Imagination
*Spring 2023: Faith, Reason and a Meaningful Life
Edith Stein, "The Hidden Life and Epiphany" [3pp]
Fr. Robert Sokolowski, "Christian Experience"
St. Anselm, "On the Fall of the Devil"
Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar, "The State of Lay Persons in the World," and selections from Gaudium et Spes
Spring 2023: Beauty and the Catholic Imagination Minicourse
5 Fridays 10:30-11:30am (UVA Location: Minor Hall Auditorium)
Beauty is an experience we all seem to recognize...yet it frequently escapes explanation, even in an academic setting! In one hour-long discussions students and faculty will explore how the Catholic faith perspective reveals something different: Beauty’s urgent and transforming call to respond to the greatest Reality.
All students are invited to register for this free, faculty-led minicourse. Prior experience not necessary, only an openness to considering the call and response to beauty in nature, art, liturgy, the every day of a life lived well. Sign-up using this form or by emailing Dr. Jocelyn Moore at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
February 10: Who is the Artist? John Paul II, "Letter to Artists" (1999)
February 17: Revelation of Beauty in Christ & the Eucharist. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, "The Feeling of Things, the Contemplation of Beauty" (2002); Selections from Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis (2007)
February 24: How Can an Image of a Crucifixion be Beautiful? Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, “The Question of Images" (2000)
March 3: Sacramental Beauty in the "Ordinary" Moments of a Life Well-Lived. Angela O’Donnell, “The Sacrament of Beauty,” Mortal Blessings (2015)
December 4, 2022: Public Lecture
Faith, Reason, Modern Science: Understanding the Ever Ancient, Ever New Christian Synthesis
Merry Christmas, 2022
November 18, 2022: Holy Women of the Americas Lunch Discussion
Join us for lunch and meet—in her own words—the youthful and talented St. Teresa of the Andes, the first canonized saint of Chile! We will consider Chilean Catholicism and the graces of Teresa’s family relationships as well as the surprising trans-continental influences of Sts. Therese of Lisieux and Elizabeth of the Trinity on our new friend, the '"Flower of the Andes." As always, all are invited so bring a friend. Also lunch is on us but consider helping with the count by registering at this link. Questions? Please contact Dr. Jocelyn Moore: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. See short reading selection from St. Teresa's Diary.
November 8, 2022 Public Lecture
Justice, the Common Good, and St. Thomas Aquinas
Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.
UVA Hotel C
Like everyone else, UVA students, faculty and staff have operating, everyday senses of what the "good" is, but what in the world does the "common" good mean beyond clean water and unpolluted air? And could "Justice" mean a whole lot more than what is meted out by courts and social media influencers? We're pushing these envelopes forward by inviting in the clarifying voices of Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P. and St. Thomas Aquinas!
All are invited to attend this free, public lecture.
October 14, 2022
Contemplating Catholicism in the University: A Breakfast Discussion with Meghan Sullivan
University of Notre Dame Philosophy Professor Meghan Sullivan will join UVA students for breakfast and an open discusison on the life and trials of a faithful Catholic within our secular age. Join us for a light morning meal and the opportunity to ask your most pressing questions—what was Meghan's path for becoming Catholic while an undergrad at UVA? how Catholic contemplative practices harmonize with the active life of a student and a university professor? or even something more challenging like why does a just God permit suffering and death. RSVP recommended through this form to ensure we have enough seats. Email Dr. Jocelyn Moore (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with questions.
This program is made possible through the support of grant #62372 from the John Templeton Foundation, “In Lumine: Promoting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide."
Online Series: On Synodality
Online Symposium Series
Synodality in Perspective, Traditions Past and Present
Sept. 6-Oct. 25, 2022
Register for One, More, or All
Cosponsored with the Lumen Christi Institute, Nova Forum, American Cusanus Society, Commonweal, Harvard Catholic Forum and America Media.
October 13, 2022: Public Lecture
"The Good Life Method"
Meghan Sullivan
University of Notre Dame
October 13, 2022 at 7:30 PM|St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish
Missed the lecture? Watch it here.
Join us for a special evening with Meghan Sullivan, UVA alum and now University of Notre Dame Professor of Philosophy. Professor Sullivan will lecture on her new book The Good Life Method: Reasoning through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith, and Meaning (2022), which challenges us to ask the big questions about faith and what makes life meaningful. All are invited to attend, so bring a friend or come to meet someone new.
Cosponsored with The Center for Christian Study and the UVA Catholic Hoos.
This public lecture is made possible through the support of grant #62372 from the John Templeton Foundation, “In Lumine: Promoting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide."
An Evening with the Ordinariate
Modern Science and Christian Faith Summer Seminar, August 7-13, 2022
The goal of this faculty-led seminar is to provide selected undergraduate students with the background knowledge and conceptual tools necessary to think clearly about the content, limits, and relation of modern science and faith.
April 20, 2022 Garden Party!
Yes! YOU are invited to this outdoor/in-person event. Bring a friend! or just come to meet someone new.