Miss Mary Innerst earned her bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts as well as her master's degree in Sacred Theology from ITI Catholic University in Austria. She has received training in ancient languages, creative and academic writing, and has served as a dissertation editor and research assistant. Throughout the course of her education, one truth became increasingly apparent, unifying all that she studied: the human intellect, when it operates properly, unfailingly leads to God, the First Cause. This lead her to the conviction that education is not just a process of fact-collection but is ultimately anthropological. The human heart beats out the questions, What am I? Who am I? Who am I for? Miss Innerst believes that the Humanities bring up questions about man that only Theology can answer. If these subjects are taught in tandem, they can serve as safeguards to arriving at the ultimate Truth as revealed by Christ, the exemplar man. This is why she is thrilled to be teaching both Theology and Humanities at JPII. She experienced the deep joy to be found in the process of true, holistic education; as she quotes a well-loved professor, “To understand is the greatest nourishment.” She wishes to facilitate this same process of joyful discovery and nourishment for her students so that, by exercising their own intellectual agency, they may come to recognize the truths about the world and themselves in relation to their ultimate End, God Himself.