Hello and welcome back to the Temistic Institute podcast. My name is Father Gregory Pine. I'm an assistant

director of the Temistic Institute or at the Temistic Institute or prepositions are hard. So you

choose the one that suits

your fancy best. I learned this while learning German as it came with a terrible recognition that

I'll always answer wrong. So whatever I say, choose something else. But I'm delighted for this

episode to be joined by Professor Josque Pizzi from the Catholic University of America. Thanks for

joining. My pleasure, Father. Thank you for having me.

So you were recently appointed or named the Dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America,

and had previously served as the director of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America,

and your publications are varied and wide-ranging. We'll zoom in on a particular area of

competence today, but could you say maybe another word or two of introduction, who you are,

where you're from, and what you're doing these days? Yeah, sure. Like you said, I'm now the dean,

but I've been teaching

at Catholic University since 1997. It was my first gig straight out of Notre Dame. I was still

completing my dissertation at that point. I've been a professional and moral theologian on my life,

which was probably the unlikeliest thing I thought I would ever end up to be.

But it's been a remarkable privilege to serve the church in this way, you know, to really dig into some of the toughest questions through now three papacies and three very different papacies, as we're all aware.

But in each case, they have provided us material to chew on.

And it's just an amazing thing to participate in the church in this manner

and also in the formation of priests and religious.

And this is something that I've done since I arrived at Catholic, you know, nearly 30 years ago now.

And some of the people that we have trained are now bishops.

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