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Sundays at CTU: Enfolded with Affection: Imagining “Us” in Creation Theology

Given our current global struggles combating, suffering, and—please God—recovering from the COVID 19 virus, this...

Canon Law

Sundays at CTU: Pope Francis’ Theology of Attraction

Sundays at CTU with Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ We humans already find it difficult to...

Spring Shapiro Lecture with Dr. Sam Lebens

Sundays at CTU: Pope Francis’ Theology of Attraction Long-time CTU professor Rev. Steve Bevans, SVD...

A Tale of Two Lives

By Donald Senior, CP

On Sunday, May 1, Pope John Paul II was beatified before hundreds of thousands in...

Catholic-Jewish Studies

Winter Shapiro Lecture with Dr. Dana Fishkin

Spring Shapiro Lecture with Dr. Sam Lebens In the Hebrew Bible, Moses declares that he...

CJSP Lecture with Menachem Wecker: Visual Illiteracy

Between Commentary and the Comedy: Jewish and Christian elements in Immanuel of Rome’s poetry This...

The Experiences of Muslim and Christian African Americans in Today’s United States

In recent years, many art museums have sought to identify and attend better to...

Catholic-Muslim Studies

Seeking Convivencia: Interreligious Dialogue as Lived Practice

Join us for part two of a two-part series that explores the roles of Christianity...

At the Intersections of Islam and Latinidad Yesterday and Today

Seeking Convivencia is an online two-part series on Zoom sponsored by the Catholic-Muslim Studies...

Tom Rausch – Meeting the Living God Part 4

Seeking Convivencia is an online two-part series on Zoom sponsored by the Catholic-Muslim Studies Program...

Catholics on Call

By Tom Rausch

Partner conference 2016 Barbara McCrabb’s presentation “Collaboration in Ministry”

“Man of Dialogue: Thomas Merton’s Catholic Vision” Book Launch

Historical Doctrinal Studies Lecture 2020

How Catholic was Thomas Merton? Since his death in 1968, Merton’s Catholic identity has...

2019 Historical Doctrinal Studies Lecture

Fresh Waters and the Implications of Pope Francis’ Turn to Indigenous Ecological Knowledge This presentation...

Spring Shapiro Lecture with Dr. Sam Lebens

What is the role of theology in forming the citizenry of the 21st century nation?...

CTU

Spring Shapiro Lecture with Dr. Sam Lebens In the Hebrew Bible, Moses declares that he...

Fourth Sunday of Lent

Sundays at CTU: God’s Creation with Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ

CTU Presidential Inauguration March 2022

At the annual Dr. Barry Rankin Sunday at CTU on God’s Creation, CTU will feature...

CTU Liturgies

The Bernardin Memorial Mass – 2020

On March 6, 2022, Sr. Barbara Reid, OP was inaugurated as the eighth president of...

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Bernardin Memorial Mass We remembered Cardinal Bernardin in a virtual memorial Mass on November...

Paul Wattson Lecture 2019

Readings: Reading 1: Jeremiah 22:19-23 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 63:2-6, 8-9 Reading 2: Romans 12:1-2 Gospel:...

Ecumenism

By CatholicTheologicalUnion

2019 Paul Wattson Lecture CTU welcomed His Eminence Nathanael Symeonides, Metropolitan of Chicago, Greek Orthodox...

2018 Franciscan Symposium

By John Corriveau

CTU 2018 Paul Wattson Lecture with Eboo Patel

By Eboo Patel

October 5, 2018: Out of many faiths: Religious Diversity & the American Promise

Ethics/ Moral Theology

Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Dawn Nothwehr, OSF

Easter Sunday

By Dawn Nothwehr, OSF

Readings: Reading I: Acts 10: 34a, 37-43 Psalm 118: 1-2, 16-17, 22-23 Reading II: Colossians...

Palm Sunday

By Maria Cimperman, RSCJ

Readings: Procession and Blessing of Palm Branches: Luke 19: 28-40 Reading I: Isaiah 50:...

Hispanic Theology and Ministry

“Hagan lío!” Latin@ Cartographers Disrupting Theology – Book Launch

Inhale/Exhale a Thriving in Ministry Blog

Join us in conversation with the Editors and contributors to Disruptive Cartographers: Doing Theology Latinamente,...

Loving yourself as your Neighbor

Inhale/Exhale – fresh air for your journey toward thriving in ministry

Marian Diaz, DMin, Director of Thriving in Ministry Loving yourself as your Neighbor ...

The Willingness Prayer Thriving. I have asked myself so many times over the past year,...

Intercultural Ministry

Fifth Sunday of Lent

Readings: Reading I: Ezekiel 37: 12-14 Psalm 130: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Reading II: Romans...

2022 Duns Scotus Lecture

By Madison Chastain

Laity as Co-Creators of the Franciscan Tradition Presented by Darleen Pryds, PhD Associate Professor of...

2021 Duns Scotus Lecture

The Experiences of Muslim and Christian African Americans in Today’s United States

Spirituality in a Wintry Season: The Wisdom of the Franciscan Tradition in the Quest for...

Interculturality

The Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Lecture 2022

Join us for part two of a two-part series that explores the roles of Christianity...

Christmas Day

By Roger Schroeder, SVD

The Experiences of Muslim and Christian African Americans in Today’s United States

In the early hours of the morning of October 21, 2019, two right wing Catholic...

Interreligious Dialogue

Seeking Convivencia: Interreligious Dialogue as Lived Practice

Join us for part two of a two-part series that explores the roles of Christianity...

2022 Winter Shapiro Lecture

Seeking Convivencia is an online two-part series on Zoom sponsored by the Catholic-Muslim Studies...

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Voices of Rebellion: Christians and Jews in the Barbadian Battle for Rights. In 1819-1820, Isaac...

Liturgy/ Sacraments

Third Sunday of Advent

By Anne McGowan

By Richard E. McCarron

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Anne McGowan

Ministry

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Christina R. Zaker

The Future Church, Now – Catholic Theological Union

One Like Us: Advent Reflections on the Humanity of Jesus

CTU honors a new generation of church leaders through these outstanding representative graduates who are...

One Like Us: Advent Reflections on the Humanity of Jesus, pt 3

One Like Us: Advent Reflections on the Humanity of Jesus, pt 4

One Like Us: Advent Reflections on the Humanity of Jesus Why did Jesus do what...

One Like Us: Advent Reflections on the Humanity of Jesus, pt 2

One Like Us: Advent Reflections on the Humanity of Jesus How was Jesus able to...

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

One Like Us: Advent Reflections on the Humanity of Jesus What did Jesus do? The...

Peacemaking

Second Sunday of Advent

A Spirituality of Reconciliation: Robert Schreiter, a Reconciling Presence in Integrity of Heart

Preaching with the Sciences

On January 23, the CTU and Precious Blood communities gathererd to remember our colleague Robert...

Preaching with the Sciences Sundays@CTU

Webinar 5 – Kathleen Beavis, MD

A primary way Roman Catholics explore their faith and nourish their spirituality is by participating...

By CatholicTheologicalUnion

Webinar 4 – Dr. Grace Wolf-Chase

By CatholicTheologicalUnion

Public Theology

Augustus Tolton Pastoral Ministry Program 23rd Annual Lecture

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Steven P. Millies

Blessed Are the Peacemakers 2022

At our annual Blessed Are the Peacemakers event, CTU honors those in service to the...

Scripture

Fourth Sunday of Lent

Third Sunday of Lent

Second Sunday of Lent

Augustus Tolton Pastoral Ministry Program 23rd Annual Lecture

Social Justice

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Second Sunday of Advent

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Spirituality

By C. Vanessa White

Second Sunday of Advent

Sunday Scripture Reflection

First Sunday of Advent

By Mary Frohlich, RSCJ

Fifth Sunday of Lent

By Gilbert Ostdiek, OFM

Readings: First Reading: Ezechiel 37:12-14 Responsorial Psalm 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Second Reading: Romans 8:8-11...

Fourth Sunday of Lent

Third Sunday of Lent

Systematics/ Doctrinal Theology

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings: Reading 1: Neh 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 Responsorial Psalm: Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 15...

Mary and the Trinity en conjunto: A focus on Sor María Ana Águeda de San Ignacio

Readings: Reading 1: Isaiah 45:1, 4-6 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 96:1, 3, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10 Reading...

By Neomi DeAnda

Mary and the Trinity en conjunto: A focus on Sor María Ana Águeda de San...

The Church

Where Have All the Black Catholics Gone?

Religious Life Encountering Synodality

Where Have All the Black Catholics Gone? CTU’s Augustus Tolton Pastoral Ministry Program hosted an...

Annual Augustus Tolton Lecture 2021

Pope Francis is asking every person to look deeply at how the people of God...

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Revival: African-American Storytelling and Intergenerational Catechesis Roman Catholic catechetical endeavors need a makeover. Using...

World Mission

Christmas Day

By Roger Schroeder, SVD

By Stephen Bevans, SVD

2021 Luzbetak Lecture

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Pope Francis’s Ecological Theology in Dialogue with Asian Religions. In his history of the World...

Young Adults

Where Have All the Black Catholics Gone?