Intellectual Life & Community
St. Gregory's Hall offers programs for intellectual and spiritual enrichment for parishioners and others, building community around "fides quarens intellectum," faith seeking understanding.
Reading Groups, Courses, & Talks |
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Canterbury House
Canterbury House is a Eucharistic community that serves the parish through prayer, outreach, fellowship, and Catholic social thought.
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Past Events
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Art & Beauty
June-July 2024 |
Newman's
Apologia June-July 2024 |
Contemporary Spiritual Memoirs
Apr-May, 2024 |
Reading Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Jan-Mar, 2024 |
Dr. Falls and the Mystical Body of Christ in Action
January 25, 2024 |
The Catholic Imagination
in Fiction Sep-Nov, 2023 |
The Works of Saint Teresa of Avila
Sep-Nov, 2023 |
The Story of Ed Marciniak
Oct 25, 2023 |
Seven Shakespeare Comedies
Jun-July, 2023 |
Faith, Hope, and Love in Francis & Benedict XVI
Apr-May, 2023 |
Augustine's Confessions
Jan-Mar, 2023 |
Cardinal George Book Event
April 18, 2023 |
T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
March, 2023 |
Dorothy Day: A Saint for Our Times
Oct 1, 2022 |
The Church Fathers on the Christian Life
Sep-Nov, 2022 |
St. Gregory Biography Reading Group
Sep-Oct 2022 |
Brideshead Revisited Reading Group
Aug 2022 |
The Long Loneliness Reading Group
April 2022 |
Dorothy Day Holy Hour & Panel
April 30, 2022 |
About our scholars-in-residence
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Scott Moringiello is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Catholic Studies at DePaul University, where he teaches classes on Catholic theology and religion and literature. He holds a PhD in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, an MPhil from the Divinity Faculty at the University of Cambridge, and a BA in Philosophy and Classics from Williams College. His research interest include religious themes in contemporary literature and the history of biblical exegesis. He and his family are former parishioners of St. Gregory the Great.
Fr. Bob Sprott, OFM, is a member of the Order of the Friars Minor (Franciscans). He holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Chicago, and his work in ministry has led him to the American Southwest, working with Pueblo and Hispanic villages, the Canadian Arctic, working in the Diocese of Churchill-Hudson Bay, and Guatemala, teaching and providing spiritual direction at a minor seminary run by the Benedictine monks near the city of Quetzaltenango. In 2000 he returned to the U.S. and began ten years in Chicago, many of which were spent at St. Peter’s in the Loop. He has taught numerous adult education courses at the Newberry Library and at area parishes. |
