The Collegium Institute invites you to apply for the Fall 2023 Fellowship program in Catholic Humanism.

The Collegium Institute invites you to apply for the Spring 2023 Catholic Humanism Fellowship. The program welcomes a small cohort of student fellows each semester to participate in a six-session luncheon discussion series held in the Newman Center. The series culminates with a seventh session practicum based on our seminar discussions.

In the Fall ‘22 semester of the Catholic Humanism Fellowship, we will explore what beauty is and why it matters. In so doing, we hope to deepen our sense of how to make beautifully and to live beautifully. Perceiving, making, and living beauty ultimately means returning to the Divine Beauty that is the source of all existence.

In the Spring ’22 semester of the Catholic Humanities Fellowship, we will explore the True. How does one come to be truthful? We will not only seek to understand how we come to know what is true, but also how we live out fidelity to the truth and service of the truth. Appreciating the fruitful relationship of faith and reason will be a major theme as a pathway to truth and to the right relationship with the source of all that is true.

Join Collegium Institute for the first semester in a new four-semester program exploring the Catholic intellectual tradition as a reality lived out in the pilgrimage of our lives. The Fall 2021 module will be an exploration of the Good.

“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?” Join us for this next module of the Faith & Reason series as we engage with thinkers like Martin Luther King Jr, Dorothy Day, St. Augustine, Corita Kent, and others to delve into this vital conversation.

This semester we'll be delving into the deep, rich history and traditions of Black Catholicism, while also exploring the relation between race and Christian theology more broadly. We will be joined by several distinguished scholars to facilitate these discussions, including Prof. Cecilia Moore (University of Dayton; Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana), Prof. Vincent Lloyd (Villanova University), and more. We will engage with these topics, once a week over the course of 6 weeks, and do so by exploring it from the vantage of theology, philosophy, the arts, history and religious studies.

Collegium Institute’s Faith & Reason Discussion Series convenes once a week to discuss theological questions through a variety of interdisciplinary lenses and texts. This semester, the theme is “Theology of the Body and Human Ecology,” and each session will be led by a distinguished facilitator.Click here for more details

This fall, we investigated the relationship between art, beauty and faith.  We will ask questions like: How do these three things inform each other and feed each other? Does beauty aid a life of faith? What effect does beauty have on the human soul? Why do we seek it, does it seek us?