Lumen Christi Institute receives $3.65M from John Templeton Foundation

CHICAGO —  The Lumen Christi Institute has been awarded $3,648,000 from the John Templeton Foundation in support of its new three-year project that will create the first-ever national network of independent institutes of Catholic thought, located at some of the country’s top universities.

The project is called “In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide.” The grant was announced Feb. 1.

The In Lumine Network will include six initial members:

Harvard Catholic Forum at Harvard University.

Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago

Nova Forum at the University of Southern California

Collegium Institute at the University of Pennsylvania

Saint Anselm Institute at the University of Virginia

COLLIS at Cornell University