CREDO is graduating to the big leagues! It is now an official member of ASSA (American Social Sciences Association). This allows us to have official sessions at the annual meetings, and we will be organizing our inaugural session at the January 2022 ASSA meetings. Please join us if you can.This session will be a panel…
Now in its fifth year, this seminar is designed as an introduction and immersion into Catholic social thought for graduate students and junior faculty in economics, finance, or related fields. Participants will cover foundational principles in Catholic social thought, starting with the human person, dignity, freedom, subsidiarity, solidarity, and the common good, and moving toward…
The second event in our event series exploring the intersection of economics and Catholic Social Thought is here. This Friday, Sandra Polania Reyes (University of Navarra) will give a talk titled “The Catholic Approach to Extractives in Colombia: Pastoral Accompaniment Using an Eco Theology of Peace” (abstract, paper and more here). If you want to…
Last September 24, Joseph Kaboski, the President of CREDO, was the moderator of a conversation between Bishop Caggiani of Bridgeport, CT, and Sir Angus Deaton, Nobel laureate. The event was entitled “The Health of Nations: Pope Francis’ Call for Inclusion”. The speakers spoke on two, seemingly related, crises of inclusion in the world today. From…
His Excellency, Daniel E. Flores, Bishop of Brownsville, TX, has agreed to fill the position of Episcopal Moderator on our Executive Board, which has been vacant since the passing of Francis Cardinal George. The Episcopal Moderator is our official link to the Magisterium. Bishop Daniel E. Flores was born in 1961 in Palacios, Texas. He…
CREDO, the Global Catholic Education Project, and the Lumen Christi Institute are launching a new working paper series on Values, Economics, and Catholic Social Thought. While the series is expected to have a broad focus on economic analysis and reasoning, researchers and practitioners from other social sciences as well as philosophy and theology are encouraged…
Dear CREDO members and readers, we have released our first bulletin! This comes in the form of an email, summarizing all things CREDO (news, events, announcements, job opportunities, and a long etc). It is also available here. The bulletin will replace the Newsletter. We plan to publish the bulletin every first and third Friday of…
CREDO has a monthly virtual seminar! It takes place every first Friday of the month at 10 am EST and explores issues at the intersection of economics and Catholic Social Thought. You can find the program and more information here. If you are interested and want to attend, please send an e-mail to the organizer,…
CREDO has grown from its early days, and is in need of more structure. The Board and I agreed that we should add some committees. Committees would take charge of different aspects of CREDO’s mission. The six proposed committees are therefore: Academic activities – this committee is charged with organizing conference sessions, joint Lumen Christi/CREDO conferences and virtual panels,…
The focus of this issue was supposed to be marriage and the family, but on April 17, Francis Cardinal George, passed away after a long bout with cancer. He was our Episcopal Moderator, that is, our church representative on CREDO’s board, and in many ways he was the impetus for the existence of our society, so I would like to spend some time in this column celebrating his life.
Francis George was born in Chicago on January 16, 1937, as the country was still struggling with the Great Depression. The second of two children, he attended the Chicago parochial schools, and he was the only bishop of Chicago to be a native Chicagoan. Although a native son, he had a measured view of the city of Chicago as an adult. He loved the people and his diocese, but he hated the corruption of local politics. …