Catholic Humanism Fellowship
In fall of 2021, Collegium Institute reimagined and restructured our Faith & Reason program to create the new Catholic Humanism Fellowship. This four-semester program explores the Catholic intellectual tradition as a reality lived out in the pilgrimage of our life. Centering our reflections on the human person fully alive, this sequence invites students to take up consideration of how Catholicism can be understood through three ideas: the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. Our fourth semester will act as a capstone taking up different themes, topics, and persons. Below, you can find more information about the modules in this new series and past Faith & Reason modules.
The glory of God is man fully alive.
—St. Irenaeus of Lyon
Current Module
In the Fall 2024 module of the four-semester Catholic Humanism Fellowship, we will consider the relationship between faith and politics. Click the button below to learn more.
Past Modules
Part II: The True (Spring 2024)
In the Spring ’24 semester of the Catholic Humanities Fellowship, we explored the True. How does one come to be truthful? We not only sought 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.
Part I: The Good (Fall 2023)
In this semester, we will explore what goodness is, what the good life is, and how considering goodness leads the mind to a deeper understanding of God from whom all goodness comes. We structured this as a kind of ascent or pilgrimage in which we see our restlessness, seek to understand ourselves, see our existence as journey, discern how we ought to act on this journey, and glimpse the destination.
Part IV: Love & Justice
Spring 2023 Catholic Humanism Fellowship on Catholic Social Teaching
This fourth semester will act as a capstone for the fellowship: we will explore Catholic Social Thought and its communitarian vision of the human person. Our exploration will center on how justice and love should shape our social, political, and economic lives. To understand this, we will examine some of the essential principles of Catholic Social Thought and how they shape our civic, political, familial, and ecclesial communities.
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Part III: The Beautiful
In the Fall ’22 semester, 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. Over the course of the fellowship, we will reflect on the interrelation of faith, beauty and art, building on John Paul II’s summons to a deeper appreciation of the necessity of beauty: "Artists of the world, may your many different paths all lead to that infinite Ocean of beauty where wonder becomes awe, exhilaration, unspeakable joy."
In fall of 2021, Collegium Institute reimagined and restructured our Faith & Reason program to create the new Catholic Humanism Fellowship. This four-semester program explores the Catholic intellectual tradition as a reality lived out in the pilgrimage of our life. Centering our reflections on the human person fully alive, this sequence invites students to take up consideration of how Catholicism can be understood through three ideas: the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. Our fourth semester will act as a capstone taking up different themes, topics, and persons. Below, you can find more information about the modules in this new series and past Faith & Reason modules.
The glory of God is man fully alive.
—St. Irenaeus of Lyon
Past Faith & Reason Modules
A Revolution of Hearts: The Work of Society & Community (Spring 2021)
“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?” -Dorothy Day
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.
A Balm in Gilead: Race, Theology, and Black Catholicism (Fall 2020)
Last semester, we delved into the deep, rich history and traditions of Black Catholicism, while also exploring the relation between race and Christian theology more broadly.
Theology of the Body & Human Ecology (Spring 2020)
This semester, the Faith & Reason seminar explored theology of the body over the course of five sessions: The Grammar of Creation, Created for Community, The Nuptial Meaning of the Body, Remaining Childless, and On Unity and Fruitfulness.
Can Beauty Save the World? (Fall 2019)
This Faith & Reason seminar series explored 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? This semester’s readings came from a variety of voices including Madeleine L’Engle, Thomas Merton, Roger Scruton, Wassily Kandinsky, John Paul II, Thornton Wilder, and more!
“Faith is a continuous stimulus to seek, never to cease or acquiesce in the inexhaustible search for truth and reality… Intellect and faith are not foreign or antagonistic to divine Revelation, they are both prerequisites for understanding its meaning…for approaching the threshold of the mystery…The Catholic faith is therefore rational and also nurtures trust in human reason…In the irresistible desire for truth, only a harmonious relationship between faith and reason can show the correct path to God and to self-fulfilment.”
— Benedict XVI