At 8:00PM EDT (7:00PM CDT) on Thursday, June 4th, Professor David Albertson will offer an introduction to the lesser-known but rich life and thought of this great German personality in a Zoom webinar, “On Nicholas of Cusa.”

Join us on Zoom Tuesday, May 5th at 6:00PM ET for a dialogue between Economists Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (Penn), Joseph Kaboski (Notre Dame) and Casey Mulligan (University of Chicago) on Economics, Catholic Social Thought, and the cost of the pandemic.

Join us at 6:00PM ET (5:00PM CT) on Tuesday, April 28th as we cosponsor, together with the Lumen Christi Institute, a webinar with Jeffrey Bishop and Stephen Meredith. This moderated dialogue, “Disease and the Problem of Evil” will take place on Zoom. The Saint Benedict Institute is a cosponsor of this event.

We look forward to cosponsoring the third installment of the Lumen Christi Institute’s Spring Webinar Series, Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought. Professor Brian Carl, who teaches philosophy at the University of St Thomas in Houston, will present on the thought of Saint Thomas of Aquinas, O.P. (d. 1274) on the ways to know God.

On April 17—the 5th anniversary of the death of Cardinal Francis George O.M.I.—the Lumen Christi Institute will host a major web event that takes stock of the American contribution to Catholic Social Thought and how it applies in our current situation. 

How can scripture guide our search for wisdom? Bernard McGinn, professor emeritus in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, begins the Lumen Christi Institute’s webinar series on Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought by presenting on Gregory the Great and reading scripture for wisdom. The Saint Benedict Institute is a cosponsor of this event.