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structural poverty in a more effective
and promising way."
_{(Pope Francis - 2017 World Food Day)}

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Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation
2017 Statement
"Constructing Alternatives to Promote
Human Dignity"

"I urgently appeal, then, for a new dialogue about how we
are shaping the future of our planet. We need a conversation
that includes everyone, since the environment challenge
we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and
affect us all. (Pope Francis: Laudato si,14)

It's About Humanity

Summary Report Sept. 23, 2016, CAPP-USA - Fordham Conference

"..To enable these real men and women to escape from extreme poverty, we must allow them to be dignified agents of their own destiny..." [Sept. 2015 Address to the United Nations]

Pope Francis

THE CENTESIMUS ANNUS PRO PONTIFICE 2015 STATEMENT - "A Reformed Market Economy: Entrepreneurship for Human Development" - is the result of the May 2013 challenge by Pope Francis to members of CAPP for recommendations on how the market economy might be made more sensitive to the needs of the poor and marginalized. Read More

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"We must participate in politics because politics is one of the highest forms of charity because it seeks the common good. And Christian lay people must work in politics." (Address to the Students of the Jesuit Schools of Italy and Albania, 7 June 2013)

Pope Francis

"We do not need a State which regulates and controls everything, but a State which, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, generously acknowledges and supports initiatives arising from the different social forces and combines spontaneity with closeness to those in need." (DCE,28)

Pope Benedict XVI

"To destroy such structures and replace them with more authentic forms of living in community is a task which demands courage and patience." (CA,38)

Saint John Paul II

"In fact, if the market is governed solely by the principle of the equivalence in value of exchanged goods, it cannot produce the social cohesion that it requires in order to function well. Without internal forms of SOLIDARITY and mutual trust, the market cannot completely fulfil its proper economic function." (CIV,35)

Pope Benedict XVI