“Sources of Meaning, Sources of Truth, Sources of Authority” ft. Catholic University of America’s Marc O. DeGirolami I Saturdays at Seven Ep. 46 (The Legal Vocation: Part Three of a Six Part Series)

In the forty-sixth episode of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Marc O. DeGirolami, the St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and the Human Person at Catholic University of America. DeGirolami opens by addressing the current state of conversations concerning human flourishing, what those conversations offer yet also where those conversations may fail due to a lack of theological and philosophical depth. Ream and DeGirolami then talk through how DeGirolami came to appreciate the ways the education he received and the experiences he encountered fostered his calling to study and practice law. They talk through DeGirolami’s eventual appointment to Catholic University of America as well as his short-term and long-term plans as the Co-Director of the Center for Law and the Human Person. They then close their conversation by discussing how DeGirolami has come to define the academic vocation as a legal scholar and what he believes the university and the Church owe the next generation of legal practitioners and scholars as they prepare for lives of service.