I would like to thank the President of AIDDA, Laura Frati Gucci, for inviting me to the 58th FCEM World Congress in this conference entitled “How Women Face the New Economy and Ecology”

Youth are subjected to having to make continuous decisions that affect their lives (majors, professions, emotional relationships, politics, integration into civil society, purchase decisions, drugs, sex, etc., etc.)

One of the primary tasks of the Social Doctrine of the Church is intervening in the debate, primarily cultural, to show the irreducible falsehood of these myths

There is a widespread understanding among business leaders and economic think-tanks that business will need to be radically different.

Vatican II approach: “To see (to study the facts); To judge (to apply moral, theological, and spiritual perspective); And to act (to take those tangible steps to resolve the issue at hand).”

Issues of life had been somewhat quarantined from Catholic social teaching and were considered a separate branch of moral theology. The implications for their integration into CST in Centesimus Annus were potentially huge but were not entirely sorted.