Upcoming Events

Wonderfully Made: LGBTQ+R(eligion) – Movie Night

    In-Person
CTU

A Movie Screening Presented by the Bernardin Center in partnership with Pathways@CTU Wonderfully Made: LGBTQ+R(eligion) To fight for greater LGBTQ+ acceptance while overlooking or ignoring religion is to miss the root of the problem. Wonderfully Made: LGBTQ+R(eligion) is storytelling with a purpose at its finest, featuring interviews with leading advocates of LGBTQ+ Catholics, exploring the […]

The Synodal Way, Going Forward: A Synod Debrief Conversation

    Online & In-Person
CTU

Synod Debrief Conversation From October 4-29, delegates from around the world gathered in Rome for concluding conversations in the Synod on Synodality. This historic gathering posed a number of questions communicated by the global Catholic Church throughout the compiled synodal documents: How are women represented and empowered in church leadership? How can the Church be […]

Memorial Liturgy of the Word – Cardinal Bernardin

    Online
Zoom

A Memorial Liturgy of Word remembering Cardinal Joseph Bernardin This week marks one year since the passing of our beloved President Emeritus Donald Senior, CP. It also marks the 27th anniversary of the passing of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. Join us online for a memorial liturgy to commemorate these profoundly important leaders. This is Virtual Event. Registration […]

Book Event – Bible, Interpretation, and Context: Reading Meaning from an African Perspective

    Online & In-Person
CTU

ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is a collection of essays that contribute to the debate on the contextual interpretation of scripture from an African context. The book engages biblical narratives from the lived experiences of Africans, insisting that meaning is attained only when people bring their daily experiences into their reading of scripture. The contributors […]

Book Launch – Community of Missionary Disciples: The Continuing Creation of a Missionary Church, by Stephen B. Bevans, SVD

    Hybrid/Bimodal
CTU

Longtime CTU faculty member Stephen B. Bevans, SVD has written an important new book drawing Pope Francis's call to missionary discipleship into dialogue with ecclesiology—how we understand what the Church is. Join us in this synodal season to hear Professor Bevans talk about his book as we celebrate his new missionary ecclesiology with responses from […]

In Good Faith – GEN Z Challenging Organized Religion

    In Person
CTU

Speakers: Anna Levin Rosen, Anna Levin Rosen serves as the Rabbi and Executive Director at UChicago Hillel. Having served UChicago Hillel for 14 years, Anna’s work is part of the fabric of the University. With a passion for Jewish life and social justice, Anna has served as a guest educator for a spectrum of organizations […]

Book Launch

    In Person - Online
5416 South Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL 60615

Join us in celebrating the book Evolving Methodologies in the Study of Spirituality (Leuven: Peeters, 2023), edited by Rossano Zas Friz De Col, SJ and Gilberto Cavazos-González, OFM. This book, a collection of talks in either Italian or English at an international gathering of scholars and students of Theology, is a significant contribution to Spiritual […]

Winter Shapiro | Shai Held – “Do Jews and Christians Love the Same Way?”

    Online
Bernardin Center | CJSP

Winter Shapiro Lecture Synopsis:  Do Jews and Christians Love the Same Way? For centuries, Christian anti-Judaic prejudice insisted that whereas Christianity is about love, Judaism is about ... something else, like law, or justice, or obedience.  Rabbi Shai Held's new book argues that Judaism, no less than Christianity, is a religion of love.  And yet Judaism […]

Spring Shapiro Lecture | A Jewish Theology of the Church

    In Person & Online
CTU

In recent decades, Jewish theologians, responding in part to overtures from Christians, and building on precedents recovered from their tradition, have articulated a range of Jewish theological approaches to Christianity. This lecture will review some of these approaches and attempt to develop a new one. Please join us for a reception at 6PM.