Discovering Wisdom: A Journey with Edith Stein w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. and Prof. Catherine Pakaluk

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Catherine Pakaluk about the philosophy of Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross). Learn how she inspired Prof. Pakaluk and why her work matters today!

Discovering Wisdom: A Journey with Edith Stein w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. and Prof. Catherine Pakaluk (Off-Campus Conversations)

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About the speaker:

Catherine Ruth Pakaluk is an Associate Professor of Political Economy in the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She received the Acton Institute's prestigious Novak Award in 2015, and the Freedom and Opportunity Prize from The Heritage Foundation in 2023. Her widely anticipated book, Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth, explores the relation between biblical faith and childbearing. Pakaluk earned her doctorate in economics at Harvard University. She lives in Maryland with her husband, philosopher Michael Pakaluk, where her kitchen table is joyfully crowded with children, grandchildren, and students.

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine, and I'm an assistant director for the Tomistic Institute,
0:13.0	and it's my joy to welcome you back to the Timistic Institute podcast for this most recent
0:17.5	off-campus conversation. This time, I'm glad to be joined by Professor Catherine Pekolic.
0:22.9	Thanks so much for joining.
0:24.1	You're welcome.
0:24.7	Glad to be here.
0:26.4	Okay, so many listeners of the TI podcast will have heard lectures that you have given
0:30.6	on a variety of cool subjects.
0:33.2	Some may know you by other means still, by your publications.
0:37.4	More on that later. But for those
0:39.1	who don't, would you just say a word about who you are, where you're from, what you do?
0:42.6	Sure. So I teach at the Catholic University of America, which is gratefully right across the
0:48.2	street from the Dominican House of Studies. So we're over in Brooklyn, Brooklyn and Washington,
0:53.8	D.C.
0:56.1	Some people call it Little Rome, and I love that.
0:59.4	So let's see, I teach in the business school.
1:01.2	So I'm an economist by training.
1:09.6	And as an economist, I worked on questions related to education, economics of education, models of education.
1:12.5	That's one of the ways I first encountered Edith Stein's work.
1:17.9	But anyway, so people know me over there as somebody who teaches economics, and then I teach some other courses related to that, you know, economics of education, family studies,
1:22.8	demography, things like that.
1:24.9	I also live in Maryland with my husband, who's a philosopher, and sometimes
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