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Centesimus Annus: Reflecting on 25 Years of Social Change

April 15, 2016

A group of men sitting in a meeting room.

25th Anniversary of Pope John Paul II's Centesimus Annus

 

Casina Pio IV, Vatican City — Jennifer Stengaard Gross represented Blue Chip Foundation at a symposium organized by the Pontifical Academy of Social Science on the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s Centesimus annus to evaluate the Catholic Church’s efforts over the past two-and- a-half decades in economic, political, and cultural mediums and to develop strategies about how the Church can continue to assist in the coming years.

“We’re facing an entirely new dynamic today,” says Gross. “Developments in culture, the internet, as well as extreme changes in economic and political life have changed since Pope John Paul II’s Centesimus annus.”

Several Catholic leaders, representatives from universities and scholarly institutions across the world, and a number of philanthropic leaders also attended the symposium.

 
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