The Catholic University of America

Why did this idea come into your mind?

Yeah, so I had the idea when I was a student at Catholic University.

God really blessed me to be able to go there, and it was always my dream to go there.

And I visited the National Shrine every day when I was a student.

Welcome.

My name is Dan Hugger, editorial and research fellow at the Acton Institute, and today I'm joined by Eric Mattson, a senior research fellow at the Gibbons Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America, a senior fellow at the Mercatus Center, and co-director of the Adam Smith Program at George Mason University.

Today we'll be discussing his new book, co-authored with Jordan Baller, A History of Christian Political Economy, From the Patristics to the Present.

It also has a lovely companion volume, Sources in Christian Political Economy, a reader, which he and Jordan both co-edit.

Hopefully we'll be at Drew's game this week against Wilkes.

Catholic University, go Cardinals.

All right.

I got all excited because I was in Maine last week doing an event for Bobby Charles, running for governor, my longtime friend.

Kimberly A. Cook Esquire is a Chicago divorce mediator, a partner at Schiller, DeCanto, and Fleck, and host of the Grown Girl Divorce podcast for Black women considering or going through divorce.

She is a proud Spelman graduate and also a graduate of the Catholic University's Columbus School of Law with a J.D., She has a very accomplished career.

And what caught our attention, the reason why we reached out to Kimberly specifically, is the work that she has done to pull together resources and information to educate women about divorce and how they can prepare themselves to go through this process.

Just to set the table, and Audra, you mentioned this in the intro, gray divorce is on the rise.

Yeah.

So now I know that you went to the Catholic University of America.

You've shared a little bit about your story online that I've seen.

And from what I recall, like, I don't know if you could you thought that you would be able to go to the Catholic University.

And so you prayed there and then you like promised or something.

So tell us a little bit of your backstory about how you came to the National Basilica and the Catholic University.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I visited for the first time my sophomore year of high school for the March for Life.

The timing of Kagan's warning just ahead of the November 3rd elections was notable.

The people of America look around at this political system and think that all this money chasing all these political candidates is a nightmare, Kagan said at the Catholic University law event last week.

And they're right.

Named to the Supreme Court by President Obama in 2010, Kagan has often viewed as a member of the three-justice liberal wing, who is most receptive to compromise with her conservative colleagues.

So I'd go up to the table and introduce myself and let them know what I'm doing.

I was starting to do work on my master's degree at Catholic University in the federal contracting degree program.

So I got very involved with NCMA, speaking engagements, speaking at World Congress.

So I was building my resume.