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On Saturday, November 15, 2025, Collegium Institute hosted a Gold Mass for Catholic Scientists at St. Agatha-St. James Church. Gold Masses are celebrated for Catholics who are or have been involved with the sciences. The patron of this mass is St. Albert the Great , a 13th century Dominican friar and teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas—and the patron saint of scientists. The celebrant for the Gold Mass...

At our 2025 Alumni Brunch, co-presented by Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture and the Penn Newman Center, we heard remarks from distinguished Penn alum Bernardo Aparicio Garcia C’05 , the co-founder and publisher of Dappled Things, the premier Catholic literary magazine in America. Bernardo reflected on his experience co-founding with other Penn alumni and considered how the in...

Collegium Institute student fellows Rachel Fischer and Sophia Silva talk with Katy Carl, the former editor of Dappled Things Magazine (a Collegium imprint). She is now spearheading Luminor, a new literary series with Bishop Barron’s Word on Fire project. Join us as we discuss Katy’s career, evolution, and vision for contemporary Catholic media and discourse. Check out Word on Fire's new publishing...

Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Blandine Lagrut, a consecrated sister of the Chemin Neuf Community, who teaches philosophy at the Facultés Loyola Paris and is completing her Ph. D. at the University of Lorraine. Join us as we discuss Sr. Lagrut's research on the ethical thought of G.E.M Anscombe and how it connects with her scholarly and religious vocation.

In 2009 the landmark monograph of William Cavanaugh, The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict , was published by Oxford University Press. In that work, Cavanaugh showed how the term “religious violence” is not just an uncomplicated description of tragic phenomena witnessed all too frequently around the world. On the contrary, he argued, it is a foundational...

Student fellow talks with Dr. Lydia Dugdale about her new book, The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom . Dr. Dugdale, M.D., speaking from her own experience caring for dying patients, invites us to recover our sense of our own finitude and reconsider what it means to die well.

Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Dr. Ryan J. (Bud) Marr, Associate Provost of Mercy College in Iowa and director of the National Institute for Newman Studies and associate editor of the Newman Studies Journal, about his new book, Seeking God with St. John Henry Newman.

Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Kate Soper, philosopher, author, and professor emerita at London Metropolitan university, about her 2022 book, Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism , which proposes a new understanding of the good life that delinks prosperity from endless growth.

Collegium Institute undergraduate fellow talks with Dr. Joshua Stuchlik, Professor of Philosophy at University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, and assistant editor of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, about his new book, Intention and Wrongdoing: In Defense of Double Effect.

Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Dr. David Deavel, associate professor of Theology at University of St. Thomas, and Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, inaugural Seaver College Scholar of Liberal Arts at Pepperdine university. Join us as we discuss Dr. Deavel and Dr. Wilson’s collection, Solzhenitsyn and the American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West .

Collegium Institute staff and students talk with Nate Anderson, deputy editor at Ars Technica and author of In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World, about what we can learn from Nietzsche in the 21st century.

Student fellows converse with Professor Mary Hirschfeld about her book Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy on the thought of Thomas Aquinas and how it relates to contemporary economic practice.

Collegium undergraduate fellows enter into conversation with Remi Brague about his book The Legitimacy of the Human . They discuss human dignity, the philosophy of humanism, its history, and its significance in our contemporary cultural context.

Collegium Student Fellows engage in conversation with renowned scholar Jeremy McInerney to discuss his scholarship on Ancient Greece and why the study of classical antiquity remains relevant for us today.

Collegium staff and students converse on the legacy of John Henry Newman with Professor David Deavel, editor at Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture .

Collegium student fellows interview Carlos Eire on his work on the Protestant Reformation. They discuss the nature of this radical change in western culture and how it has come to shape the modern world.

Collegium Institute staff discuss the intersections of artistic creativity and the religious experience with Christian artist, Makoto Fujimura