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2025-2026
SBI hosted Dr. Michael Hanby for “Technology and Truth.” This talk was supported by a grant from the Lumen Christi Institute with funding from the John Templeton Foundation.
The Saint Benedict Institute hosted speaker Dr. Jared Ortiz on “The Monk and the Machine: How St. Benedict Can Help Us Preserve Our Humanity in the Digital Age,” on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
The Saint Benedict Institute hosted speaker Dr. Bradley Birzer to speak on technological themes in the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, with funding from the John Templeton Foundation.
2024-2025
On October 16, 2024, the Saint Benedict Institute hosted attorney John Bursch and Dr. Megan DeFranza for an evening of civil dialogue on sex and gender.
With assistance from Christian antiquity, Dr. Jordan Wales, Associate Professor of Theology at Hillsdale College, took up questions regarding AI and personhood.
Three times this autumn, Fr. Nick Monco celebrated low Masses in the Dominican Rite on Hope’s campus. This variation on the Traditional Latin Mass is unique to the Order of Preachers and rarely celebrated. It contains several unusual gestures and rituals, including a moment when the priest holds his arms in a cruciform position during the Roman Canon.
2023-2024
One of the polarizing questions in today’s culture is the question of evolution and its relationship to faith. Sr. Damien Marie Savino addresses this apparent disjunct and consider the theory of evolution in light of the resources of the Catholic tradition.
Six African American Catholics have active formal causes for sainthood before the Vatican. Some of these figures escaped slavery and others died as recently as 1990. Any one (or more) of them could become the first canonized African American saint. In this lecture, Bishop Joseph N. Perry discusses the path to sainthood for some of these important figures.
Did the universe have a beginning? Was it created? Are these the same question? And will the universe come to an end or last forever? This talk will discuss what Christian revelation, philosophy, and contemporary science have to say about these questions.
In this talk, Dr. Jack Mulder discusses biblical, traditional, and philosophical ways to think of Jesus' nuclear family. Did Jesus have siblings? Was Mary a virgin throughout her life? Why do those questions matter for us?
2022-2023
On Monday, October 17, 2022, Fr. Robert Sirico joined us for a talk at Hope College. Fr. Sirico, who is president emeritus and co-founder of the Acton Institute, applied timeless biblical wisdom to contemporary issues through the address “The Economics of the Parables.” The event was co-sponsored by the Markets & Morality student organization at Hope, the Saint Benedict Institute, and the Corpus Christi Foundation.
In asking his contemporaries what they wanted, Jesus points the way to an understanding of human beings as creatures ordered to desire. Author and Hope College professor Richard Ray tells the story of how a sacred journey to a sacred place resulted in a sacred purpose: the reordering of his desires and the reshaping of his heart.
The Nicene Creed begins with the seemingly bland statement, “I believe in one God.” This claim is so familiar to us that we have lost sight of how truly shocking, radical, and controversial this doctrine was. In the early Church, Roman authorities saw the Christian teaching about one God as a threat to the social order, and Christians had to defend their belief even, at times, to the point of death.