Articles by Alice:
Human Demotion, Supernatural Promotion (about Fr. Benedict Groeschel)
Dr. Alice von Hildebrand soon discovered herself to be somewhat unusual among philosophers and university professors, primarily because she never deviated from teaching the objectivity of truth. This may seem innocent enough, but as the years passed, it became clear that such teaching was considered dangerous heresy in the world of the university, where all things were becoming increasingly relative. Alice indicates that many on the faculty of Hunter College around her seemed allergic to the word truth, and she was not infrequently accused of teaching Catholicism rather than philosophy.
Alice’s teaching was inspired by her renowned and respected husband, Catholic philosopher and theologian Dietrich von Hildebrand and his profound understanding of Catholic thought, and it was always sound, powerful teaching reflecting the objectivity of truth, which leads to the One who is the complete truth. To Alice the truth is the bond between human beings. Relativism is the seed of division. Pope Benedict XVI has said that, when the intellectual history of our time is definitively written, Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand will certainly be considered “most prominent among the figures of this era.