The Collegium Institute invites you to apply for the Fall 2022 Catholic Humanism Fellowship. This program explores the Catholic intellectual tradition as a reality lived out in the pilgrimage of our life. Centering our reflection on the human person fully alive, we will take up consideration of how Catholicism can be understood through three ideas, dedicating one semester to each: the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. Our fourth semester will act as a capstone taking up different themes, topics, and persons. The first module of the Fellowship was held during the Fall 2021 semester.
Part III: The Beautiful
In this 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."
The program welcomes a small cohort of student fellows each semester to participate in a six-session luncheon discussion series held at the Penn Newman Center. The series culminates with a seventh-session practicum based on our seminar discussions.
Schedule
September 16: Beauty & the Bible: Scriptural Touchstones
September 23: What is Beauty?
September 30: Why Beauty Matters?
October 14: Seeing Beauty
October 21: Living Beauty
October 28: God is Beauty
November 4: Practicum: Making Beauty
Time: Fridays, 12:45pm-1:45pm
Location: Penn Newman Center (111 S 38th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104)
Application: This fellowship is open to students at the University of Pennsylvania and other Philadelphia colleges. Applications are due on September 9. Click the button below to apply.
Please direct any questions you may have to Dr. Terence Sweeney (tsweeney@collegiuminstitute.org).