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THE CRISIS AND THE CURE
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THE ANSWER IS THE FAMILY
"The future of humanity passes by way of the family," said Pope St. John Paul II. Many of us recognize the crisis in our society. But do we realize that the answer to the crisis is the "fundamental cell of society"? READ MORE >>
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RECENT EVENTS
FCAPP Vatican Conference,
21-23 October 2021
The conference assembled an amazingly diverse and expert group of speakers who addressed the topic of Solidarity, Cooperation, and Responsibility and was highlighted by Pope Francis’ address to members.
READ: HOLY FATHER'S ADDRESS TO CAPP >>
READ: FCAPP PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS TO HOLY FATHER >>
READ: DETAILED SUMMARY OF SELECT PROCEEDINGS >>
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CAPP-USA Certificate Course in CST, 24 – 29 October, Washington, D.C.
This 13th edition of our flagship program, conducted with The Catholic University of America, was ‘sold out’ and continued fulfilling our charge to evangelize with Catholic social teaching.
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FRANCE
Moving testimony leads to deep insights.
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MALTA
Ethics in Business, according to Pope Francis.
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 HENRY SCHWALBENBERG
Henry is the Director of Fordham University's Graduate Program in International Political Economy and Development. He is also a professor in Fordham's Economics Department where he teaches graduate courses in international and development economics.
Currently he works with his students each year to produce Fordham's Pope Francis' Global Poverty Index. The Fordham Francis Index attempts to measure extreme poverty by measuring seven characteristics suggested by the Pope to better understand both material poverty and spiritual poverty. Those characteristics include lack of access to water, malnutrition, inadequate housing, lack of employment on the material side and illiteracy, violence against women, and religious persecution on the spiritual side.
Henry can't wait for international borders to re-open more fully. One of his favorite activities each year was to travel overseas to visit his students working with Catholic Relief Services in various parts of the globe.
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WHAT I'M READING
While stuck at home he very much enjoyed reading Frank Snowden's 2019 book on Epidemics and Development; From the Black Death to the Present. While the book does not cover the current pandemic, it gives a superb overview of how epidemics have affected society and changed the course of history yielding a number of insights applicable to the current situation.
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