CAPP-Newark  (Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey)

The CAPP-Newark 2009-2010 season kicked off with a general session on Saturday, October 3,  in the Archdiocesan Center in Newark where members applied the principles of the encyclical, Centesimus Annus to the issue of  the health care system.

 
Diocesan Ecclesiastical Counselor Msgr. Slinger gave a short discourse on the need to apply CAPP principles to current-day society, followed by Don Readlinger, Tom Ludlum and Fred Fakharzadeh reviewing the principles of Catholic Social Teaching and outlining how these principles could be applied to the current health care reform.  

The members broke into groups and the rest of the meeting was devoted to gaining an understanding of the principles of the encyclical using the joint pastoral statement from the Archdioceses of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., entitled,  "Principles of Catholic Social Teaching and Health Care Reform" as the framework.  The groups addressed the letter’s three principles: Subsidiarity; Solidarity and the Common Good; Life and the Dignity of the Human Person with the latter further broken down  into four categories –  the “Exclusion of Abortion and Protection of Conscience Rights,” “End of Life Counseling,” the “Right to Acquisition of Health Care” and the “Right to Make Health Care Decisions for Self and Family." >>><<<

Two seminars were co-sponsored with The Micah Institute for Business and Economics and the Center for Catholica Studies, Seton Hall University, and held at the SHU campus.  On October 27^th Margaret Benefiel, Ph.D. presented “The Soul of a Leader in Tough Economic Times."  Dr. Benefiel teaches at the Andover Theological School in Boston and the Milltown Institute in Dublin, Ireland.

The second, on November 12, entitled, “Making a Life, Not Just a Living – Business is a Human Science” was presented by Gene Ahner.  Mr. Ahner is a corporate director of human resources and an adjunct professor at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

Mr. Gene Ahner at Seton Hall University