Come hear about the fascinating life, witness, and writings of Ida Friederike Görres, daughter of an Austro-Bohemian count and his Japanese wife. Her funeral eulogy was delivered by Fr. Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, and Bishop Erik Varden recently described her as “a crucial voice for the present moment.”

Formerly well-known but then neglected after her death, Görres (1901–1971) is now beginning to receive her due as one of the most prescient and eloquent defenders of the Catholic Faith in the twentieth century. Such seminal works as The Church in the Flesh (Cluny, 2023), John Henry Newman: A Life Sacrificed (Ignatius Press, 2024) and What Binds Marriage Forever (CUA Press, 2025) are being made available due to the translation efforts of Dr. Jennifer Bryson, Fellow in the Catholic Women’s Forum of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Join us as Dr. Bryson guides us not only through Görres’ life, but her insights into sanctity, marriage, and the future of the Church.

Jennifer S. Bryson, PhD holds a BA from Stanford University in Political Science, an MA from Yale University in History, and a PhD from Yale in Greco-Arabic and Islamic Studies. She has held positions at the Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Army War College, the Hudson Institute, and the Witherspoon Institute.

An adult convert to Catholicism, she is also the Founder of the Sports Policy Initiative, a project advocating to get politics out of sports. Her work has appeared in Crisis Magazine, One Peter Five, The Lamp, and Public Discourse. She is a Contributor to Creation Theology Fellowship, where readers can find her Marvel, Believe, Care Creation Coloring Book, and her puppet show, “The Days of Creation.”

Image: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, A Section of the Via Sacra, Rome