Alice Marie von Hildebrand, GCSG[1] (née Jourdain; 11 March 1923 – 14 January 2022) was a Belgian-born American Catholic philosopher, theologian, author, and professor.
She left her home country in 1940, shortly after it was invaded by Germany, and relocated to the United States as a refugee.
[4] She initially attended Manhattanville College,[4] before studying philosophy at Fordham University,[2] where she obtained a doctorate in 1949.
[4][5] Von Hildebrand retired early in 1984,[1] having grown weary of being issued a teaching schedule that concluded at 10 pm.
[1] Her works include The Soul of a Lion: The Life of Dietrich von Hildebrand (2000), a biography of her husband,[6] and her autobiography, Memoirs of a Happy Failure (2014), which recounts her escape from Nazi Europe and her teaching career at Hunter College.
Hildebrand held conservative Catholic views on homosexuality, saying that it "constitutes a grave offense to God and brings great moral harm to the persons engaging in it", and arguing that those with "homosexual tendencies" should practice celibacy.