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Sunday, January 13, 2013

ALICE VON HILDEBRAND’S PRO-LIFE QUOTE [PRO LIFE QUOTE OF THE WEEK ~ SUNDAY 13 JANUARY 2013 TO SATURDAY 19 JANUARY 2013]



QUOTE: "...is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?" [Alice von Hildebrand, The Privilege of Being a Woman, p.24]

AUTHOR: Alice von Hildebrand (born Alice Jourdain, 11 March 1923 in Brussels, Belgium) is a Catholic philosopher and theologian and a former professor. She came to the U.S. in 1940 and began teaching at Hunter College in New York City in 1947. She was married to the famous philosopher and theologian Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977), meeting him at Fordham University in New York where she was a student and he was a professor. She remained married to him until his death. She retired in 1984. Alice von Hildebrand lives in the United States and is a lecturer and an author, whose works include: The Privilege of Being a Woman (2002) and The Soul of a Lion: The Life of Dietrich von Hildebrand (2000), a biography of her late husband.

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