Save a Place for Goodness: Hildebrand Shows How to Find Full Value in the Liturgy

Fahter Nick Blaha reviewed Liturgy and Personality, by Dietrich von Hildebrand, at Adoremus Bulletin.

Philosopher Alice von Hildebrand Honored by Pope Francis, Cdl Burke

The aim of education is to cultivate in students a “listening heart,” Cardinal Raymond Burke said in New York this week.

The cardinal, an American who works in the Vatican and was touted by some as a candidate to succeed Pope Benedict XVI earlier this year, spoke at an Oct. 30 dinner honoring philosopher Alice von Hildebrand.

Cardinal Burke invested von Hildebrand as a Dame Grand Cross of the Pontifical Order of St. Gregory the Great, an honor Pope Francis bestowed on her Sept. 19. The investiture took place during a dinner at A CLUB in midtown Manhattan. The affair marked von Hildebrand’s 90th birthday and was held by the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project, which seeks to disseminate the work of the German Catholic philosopher of the same name. Since Von Hildebrand's death in 1977, Alice von Hildebrand has devoted her life and work to promoting his thought.

Cardinal Burke, prefect of the Vatican Signatura – the highest judicial body in the Church – said in a keynote address that both Dietrich von Hildebrand, a professor at Fordham University, and his wife, who taught philosophy for 37 years at Hunter College in New York, faithfully carried out the role of Catholic educators in engendering in students the “listening heart” that leads one to the fullness of truth in the Catholic faith.

“So often today, we find individual Catholics as well as Catholic endeavors and institutions in the state of some confusion or even error about their Catholic identity,” he said. “In particular, a notion of tolerance of ways of thinking and acting contrary to Catholic teaching and morals seemingly has become the interpretative key of many of our Catholic activities. This notion is not securely grounded in the moral tradition, but it tends to dominate our approach to the extent that we end up claiming to be Catholic while tolerating ways of thinking and acting which are diametrically opposed to the moral law and therefore to the Catholic faith.”

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Dietrich von Hildebrand Lecture Thursday in La Crosse

Dietrich von Hildebrand Lecture

Catholic philosopher and theologian Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977) was hated by Hitler, a defender of the Jews, a friend of John Paul II, and a philosopher of love and beauty. According to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, “In the history of modern Catholic philosophy, his name will be preeminent!” Come and learn about von Hildebrand’s unique life, personalism, and phenomenology, from his student of four years, Professor Don R. Clark, on Thursday,

May 2, 8:00 pm, in the chapel here at the Newman Center.

 Newman Center - La Crosse

A great sign for the Newman Center.  It's parishioners are probably the most liberal in the area, but a nice recovery seems to be going on.  Hildebrand could seriously be made a Doctor of the Church, and the lecture indicates healthy signs for the parish.  I may attend. 

This Rock had some nice articles on Hidebrand.  Check out A Philosopher with Heart.