St. Thomas Lumen SUMMER 2023
T he Incarnation changes everything. That includes the classroom.
Published by the University of St. Thomas Center for Catholic Studies 55-S
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The classroom is where our students immediately engage Catholic Studies. Here, the ideas become reality. It is where we think about the impact of the Incarnation on human thought and culture. Here, students are invited to think concretely about the things that matter most. Such is the purpose of every single course in Catholic Studies; such is the purpose of the program as a whole. The heart of the Catholic Studies classroom is not a curriculum. Its heart is the encounter of the professor and students. Our faculty care deeply about the intellectual project of Catholic Studies and bring to it all their intellectual and imaginative powers. Our faculty, over the course of the past 30 years, have brought their own particular personality, style and genius to the classroom. As a result, our students experience a variety of ways one can encounter reality. Students certainly work; intellectual engagement is most serious because it gets at the deepest
things. They also laugh. Our faculty bring joy to the classroom, and it frequently erupts into laughter. This engagement spills over into conversations in faculty offices. Students know our faculty are available to talk about things that matter. Students will sometimes tell us they don’t want to graduate yet; there are more classes to take. But leave they must, and they take Catholic Studies, the vision of Catholic Studies and its engagement with everything, into the world and live it. As we think about the future of Catholic Studies, we see its effect and influence well beyond Sitzmann Hall and the campus of the University of St. Thomas. Catholic Studies is, as our founder Don Briel was fond of saying, a work of grace. That grace is nowhere more evident than in the fruits of our classrooms. Our faculty are deeply grateful to be a part of something so beautiful, joyful and enduring.
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catholicstudies@stthomas.edu stthomas.edu/catholicstudies Catholic Studies Communications Karen Laird Associate Director, Center for Catholic Studies Editor Brant Skogrand ’04 MBC, APR, CPPM Art Director John Mau Photographers University and Student Photographers University Archives
News/Did You Know? ..................4 The Heart of Catholic Studies ......6 The Center for Catholic Studies: A Settled Home...........................12 Catholic Studies Rome Program.......................................14 The Integration of Law and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition....16 A Bridge Between Faith and Business.......................................17 The Journal of the Catholic Studies Movement......................18 Leadership Interns......................19 Latino Scholars ...........................20 Stained-glass Windows of the Albertus Magnus Chapel............22 Catholic Studies 30th Anniverary...................................26
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Contributors John F. Boyle Michael J. Naughton Melina Sotro-Arguello ‘18 Nancy Sannerud Michelle Rash '16, '24 CSMA Monsignor Martin Schlag Kathryn Wehr
Student Assistant Madison Liebl ‘23 On the cover Unknown artist: "Nativity, Adoration of the Shepherds"
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JOHN F. BOYLE, CHAIRMAN DEPARTMENT OF CATHOLIC STUDIES
MICHAEL NAUGHTON, DIRECTOR CENTER FOR CATHOLIC STUDIES
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