Learn more and enroll at www.lanecatholic.org/course/moral-universe.

What is right and wrong? How can we know? Do our choices have eternal consequences? How can we find true freedom, happiness, and fulfillment in this life and the next?

To address these questions, in March 2021 Pope Francis urged “Christian communities… and cultural associations to promote initiatives making known the message of” Dante’s great poem, the Divine Comedy, “in all its fullness.” The Lakeshore Academy for the New Evangelization is responding by offering a unique course exploring the Catholic moral universe illustrated by Dante.

Dante, says Pope Francis, “wants to show us the route to happiness, the right path to live a fully human life, emerging from the dark forest in which we lose our bearings and the sense of our true worth.”

This four-quarter course (taught by Greg Smith, Dean of the LANE) will explore the Catholic moral universe: good and evil, freedom and bondage, actions and consequences, sin and salvation, and above all, love. This course is not a literature or history course, and students will not be required to read the Divine Comedy. Instead, examples from Dante’s work will be used to illustrate Catholic doctrinal and moral teaching, helping guide us on our own pilgrimages toward eternal life and joy.

Quarter 1: The Descent into Hell (Fall 2021)
Quarter 2: The Climb Through Purgatory (Fall 2021)
Quarter 3: The Light of Heaven (Winter 2022)
Quarter 4: Contemporary Moral Issues in Light of Dante (Spring 2022)