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Sundays at CTU: Pope Francis’ Theology of Attraction

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

Spring 2024 Shapiro Lecture with Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal

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

Sibling Rivals: How the Idea of Chosenness Unites and Divides Jews and Christians

It’s complicated! Network analysis and Jewish-Christian relationships in the Babylonian Talmud. This talk will introduce...

“My Parents Never Spoke Of It”: Holocaust Remembrance Lecture by Rosalie Levinson

Winter 2024 Shapiro Lecture with Dr. Joel Kaminsky Sibling Rivals: How the Idea of Chosenness...

Raising Asian Voices in Interreligious Dialogue

In this talk, Rosalie Levinson will explain how, despite their silence, being a child...

Catholic-Muslim Studies

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

Please join us for a talk about the importance of promoting inclusivity and diversity in...

Seeking Convivencia: Interreligious Dialogue as Lived Practice

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

Tom Rausch – Meeting the Living God Part 4

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

Catholics on Call

By Tom Rausch

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

By Birgit Oberhofer

Lost in Translation

By Birgit Oberhofer

Center for the Study of Consecrated Life

Reseeding Religious Life through the Global Sisterhood

2025 Reseeding Religious Life through the Global Sisterhood

As the Center celebrates its 10th year we invite you to a book launch. The...

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

As the Center celebrates its 10th year we invite you to a book launch. The...

Church History

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...

Easter 2 C Pope Francis 2025

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

CTU

By Rev. Ferdinand Okorie, CMF

CTU Liturgies

CTU Presidential Inauguration March 2022

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

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

26th Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Dawn Nothwehr, OSF

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Madison Chastain

Hispanic Theology and Ministry

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Second Sunday of Advent

By Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández

By Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández

Inhale/Exhale a Thriving in Ministry Blog

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 ...

26th Annual Louis J Luzbetak, SVD, Lecture on Mission and Culture

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

Intercultural Ministry

The Feast of the Holy Family

The Pyramid Beneath a Church: Causing Muted Signs to Speak in Inculturation Standing at the historic...

By Joanne Doi, MM

Readings: Reading 1: Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14 Responsorial Psalm: 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 Reading 2: Colossians...

25th Annual Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Lecture on Mission and Culture

26th Annual Louis J Luzbetak, SVD, Lecture on Mission and Culture

Where is the Center of World Christianity Today? The Five Frontiers of Mission and Theology...

Interculturality

Raising Asian Voices in Interreligious Dialogue

The Pyramid Beneath a Church: Causing Muted Signs to Speak in Inculturation Standing at the historic...

25th Annual Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Lecture on Mission and Culture

Please join us for a talk about the importance of promoting inclusivity and diversity in...

Raising Asian Voices in Interreligious Dialogue

Where is the Center of World Christianity Today? The Five Frontiers of Mission and Theology...

Interreligious Dialogue

2023 CCGI Bernardin Conference Keynote: Seeking Common Ground Across Generations

Please join us for a talk about the importance of promoting inclusivity and diversity in...

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

Ellen Koneck is the executive director at Commonweal. She was previously the head writer at...

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

Liturgy/ Sacraments

Palm Sunday

By Richard Fragomeni

Third Sunday of Advent

12th Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Richard Fragomeni

Ministry

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Christina R. Zaker

Pentecost Sunday

By Scott C. Alexander

Sixth Sunday of Easter

By Christina R. Zaker

One Like Us: Advent Reflections on the Humanity of Jesus

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

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

Second Sunday of Advent

By Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández

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

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Madison Chastain

Augustus Tolton Pastoral Ministry Program 23rd Annual Lecture

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Steven P. Millies

Scripture

Easter 2 C Pope Francis 2025

By Rev. Ferdinand Okorie, CMF

Social Justice

CSCL Spring 2024 Symposium

24th Annual Tolton Lecture “If Not for the Women”

“Moving Along the Arc: Women and Men Religious as Agents of Reconciliation and Transformative...

Third Sunday of Lent

24th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Spirituality

First Sunday of Advent

By Mary Frohlich, RSCJ

By Gilberto Cavazos-Gonzalez

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

By C. Vanessa White

Sunday Scripture Reflection

Easter 2 C Pope Francis 2025

By Rev. Ferdinand Okorie, CMF

Systematics/ Doctrinal Theology

Fifth Sunday of Lent

By Robin Ryan, CP

31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

By Robin Ryan, CP

Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ

By Robin Ryan, CP

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...

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

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

World Mission

Fourth Sunday of Lent

By Stephen Bevans, SVD

Christmas Day

By Roger Schroeder, SVD

By Stephen Bevans, SVD

Young Adults

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Divine Mercy Sunday

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time