Programs: Caritas in veritate and the United States

A Symposium Organized by The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

15–16 October 2010

The True Wealth of Nations | Catholic Education | The Catholic Tradition | Generations in Dialogue | Interreligious and Ecumenical Topics

Program Information | Focus Paper (pdf) | Newsletter Special Edition (pdf)| Participant Biographies

Participant Biographies

Mr. John L. ALLEN is an American journalist who divides his time between Rome and the United States. He specializes in news about the Catholic Church and is senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and senior Vatican analyst for CNN. Allen is the author of several books, including The Future Church: How Ten Trends are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church and All the Pope's Men: The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks. He has also written two biographies of Pope Benedict XVI, the first one published in 2000 when he was still a cardinal and the first biography of him in English.

Dr. Mary Jo BANE is Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, and Academic Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She has served as Assistant Secretary for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services. B.S., Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; M.A. and D.Ed. Harvard University.

Fr. Albino BARRERA, O.P., is Professor of Economics and Theology, Providence College. His publications include Market Complicity and Christian Ethics (forthcoming, Cambridge), Globalization and Economic Ethics: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy (Palgrave MacMillan), Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics (Cambridge), God and the Evil of Scarcity: Moral Foundations of Economic Agency (Notre Dame), and Modern Catholic Social Documents and Political Economy (Georgetown). Licentiate in theology (STL) the Dominican House of Studies, Washington D.C., Ph.D. in economics, Yale University.

Dr. Rebecca BLANK is Under Secretary for Economic Affairs in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Her office produces economic and policy analysis and she oversees the two largest U.S. statistical agencies, the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Prior to this, she was dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and co-director of the National Poverty Center. She served as a member of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has taught economics at Northwestern University and Princeton. Her books include It Takes A Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty; Is the Market Moral? (with William McGurn), and Do Justice: Linking Christian Faith and Modern Economic Life.

Dr. Luk BOUCKAERT is emeritus professor of ethics at the Catholic University of Leuven (K.U. Leuven, Belgium). He is a philosopher and an economist by training. His research and publications fall within the fields of business ethics and spirituality. In 1987 he co-founded the interdisciplinary Centre for Economics and Ethics at Leuven. In 2000 he started the SPES Forum (Spirituality in Economics and Society) and some years later the international European SPES Forum. He has written several books in Dutch. Recent publications in English include: Spirituality as a Public Good (co-edited with Laszlo Zsolnai, Antwerp, 2007), Frugality. Rebalancing Material and Spiritual Values in Economic Life (co-edited with H. Opdebeeck and L. Zsolnai, Oxford, 2008), Imagine Europe (co-edited with J.Eynikel, 2009).

Mr. Paul CARON was associated with J.P. Morgan in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East for most of his business career. He was head of J.P. Morgan, Belgium, and General Manager of Euroclear, a clearing house and depository for the world's international bond and equity markets. He was president of J.P. Morgan (Suisse) and took retirement in 1990. He has been the Co-Executive Director of the Center for European Policy Studies and has played a role in a number of philanthropic organizations, including the International Catholic Children's Bureau. B.A, Georgetown University; Harvard Law School; and M.B.A., Harvard Business School. He is co-director of the True Wealth of Nations research project.

Fr. John A. COLEMAN, S.J. is recently retired from the Charles Casassa Chair of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University. He has published widely on issues related to the sociology of religion, Catholic social thought, social theory, and theories of justice. He has been a research fellow at The Woodstock Center, The Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the University of Chicago's Institute for Advanced Studies in Religion, and elsewhere. B.A., St. Louis University; M.A., Licentiate in Philosophy, St. Louis University; the S.T.M., Licentiate in Theology, Santa Clara University; and the Ph.D. in Sociology, the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Paul DEMBINSKI is Director, Observatoire de la Finance, Geneva, Switzerland. He is Professor of International Strategy and Competition at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and co-founder and Director of the Geneva-based independent economic research institute Eco'Diagnostic. He is also the inspirator and director of Observatoire de la Finance - a think tank on finance and ethics - and editor of the bilingual journal Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun. He has written many books and articles in the field of internationalization of enterprises, competition, ethics and finance. His latest book is Finance: Servant or Deciever? Financialization at the Crossroads (Palgrave Macmillan 2009 - also in French and Spanish, Polish in preparation).

Ambassador Miguel DIAZ is U. S. Ambassador to the Holy See and Professor of Theology at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, Minnesota (on leave). He is a past president of ACHTUS (the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians in the US) and a past member of the board of the CTSA (the Catholic Theological Society of America), and the Karl Rahner Society. His publications include: On Being Human: U.S. Hispanic and Rahnerian Perspectives (Orbis Books), and From the Heart of Our People: Explorations in Catholic Systematic Theology (co-edited, Orbis Books). B.A., St. Thomas University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Daniel FINN is Professor of Theology and William E. and Virginia Clemens Professor of Economics and the Liberal Arts, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. He is a past-president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the Association for Social Economics, and the Society of Christian Ethics. He represents the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies in a project to engage the Catholic Church in Latin America in work with civil society organizations to confront government corruption. B.S., St. John Fisher College; M.A. and Ph.D, the University of Chicago. He is co-director of theTrue Wealth of Nations research project.

Dr. Ruth GROENHOUT is Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her books include Transforming Care: A Christian Vision of Nursing Practice (co-authored, Eerdmans), Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethic of Care (Rowman & Littlefield), Philosophy, Feminism, and Faith, (co-edited, Indiana University Press). B.A., Calvin College; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame.

Fr. James HEFT, S.M. is Alton M. Brooks Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California and President of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies. He was chair of Religious Studies, Provost, University Professor of Faith and Culture, and Chancellor at the University of Dayton. He serves on the editorial board of two journals, has served on the US Catholic Bishops' Committee on Education, and as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. B.A. and B.S.Ed., the University of Dayton; M.A. and Ph.D., the University of Toronto. He is a member of the steering committee of the True Wealth of Nations research project.

Fr. Bryan HEHIR is Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Secretary for Health Care and Social Services for the Archdiocese of Boston. He has also served as Dean of Harvard Divinity School and on the staff of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for nineteen years. His writings include: The Moral Measurement of War: A Tradition of Continuity and Change; Military Intervention and National Sovereignty; Catholicism and Democracy; and Social Values and Public Policy: A Contribution From a Religious Tradition. B.A. and M.Div., St. John's Seminary; Th.D., Harvard Divinity School.

Fr. Kenneth HIMES, OFM is Associate Professor of Theology, Boston College. He has served as editor of New Theology Review, a fellow of the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton, NJ, and theological consultant for the Office of Social Development and World Peace at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is the editor of the reference volume, Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations (Georgetown University Press). He is a past-President of the Catholic Theological Society of America. B.A., Siena College; M.A., Washington Theological Union; Ph.D., Duke University.

Dr. Mary L. HIRSCHFELD earned her doctorate in economics at Harvard University and was a professor of economics at Occidental College for fifteen years, specializing in the fields of macroeconomics and economic history, feminist economics, and heterodox approaches to economic theory. Her work has been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Economic Education, History of Political Economy, and the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. After a conversion to Catholicism, she left her position to study theology at Notre Dame. She is currently a Charlotte Newcombe fellow and a Graduate Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Studies, working on a dissertation entitled "Virtuous Consumption in a Dynamic Economy: a Thomistic Engagement with Neoclassical Economics."

Fr. David HOLLENBACH, S.J. holds the University Chair in Human Rights and International Justice and is Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College. He also regularly serves as Visiting Professor at Hekima College, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. He is a past-president of the Society of Christian Ethics and serves on a number of academic and other boards. B.S., St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia; Ph.L., St. Louis University; M.A., St. Louis University; M.Div., Woodstock College; Ph.D., Yale University.

Mr. Clifford LONGLEY is Editorial Consultant to The Tablet of London, where he is leader writer and chief columnist. He is a well-known as an author, broadcaster and journalist who has specialized in the coverage and analysis of British and international religious affairs. For twenty years he wrote a weekly column on religion, morality and culture for London's The Times and for nearly a decade for The Daily Telegraph. His range of subjects includes Christian, Muslim and Jewish affairs, contemporary morality, secularism, politics, legal affairs, sociology and interfaith relations. He has served as a consultant to the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales for the production of several statements on religion and economic life. He participated in the True Wealth of Nations project and is now working on a document for the Bishops' Conference relating Catholic social teaching, especially Caritas in Veritate, to conditions in contemporary Britain.

Professor Katherine MARSHALL is Visiting Professor in the Department of Government, and senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, and Executive Director of World Faiths Development Dialogue. She has worked for almost four decades on international development, with a focus on issues facing the world's poorest countries. Her long career with the World Bank (1971-2006) involved a wide range of leadership assignments, including a focus on ethics, values, and faith in development work, as counselor to the World Bank's President. She serves on the Boards of several NGOs, including the Opus Prize Foundation and Avina Americas. She chairs the international selection committee for the Niwano Peace Prize. B.A., Wellesley College, M.P.A., Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.

Bishop William MURPHY is Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York. He has taught at Pope John XXIII Seminary, Weston, M.A. and St. John's Seminary, Brighton, M.A., and Emmanuel College, Boston, M.A. He has served as undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and has published on the economy and Catholic social teaching. A.B., Saint John's Seminary; S.T.L. and S.T.D., Pontifical Gregorian University. He has served both the Holy See and the U.S. Bishops Conference on a number of committees and assignments and is currently Chairman of the USCCB Committee for Domestic Justice and Human Dignity.

Dr. Michael NAUGHTON is Director of John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought and Alan W. Moss Professor in Catholic Social Thought, University of St. Thomas, St Paul, Minnesota. His books include: Rediscovering Abundance: Interdisciplinary Essays on Wealth, Income and their Distribution in the Catholic Social Tradition, (co-edited), Managing as if Faith Mattered: Christian Social Principles in the Modern Organization, (co-authored), Rethinking the Purpose of Business: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Catholic Social Tradition, (co-edited). Ph.D., Theology, Marquette University; M.B.A., University of St. Thomas,

Mr. Michael NOVAK holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. He has served as Ambassador of the U.S. Delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva and has received the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He has published many books and articles on Christianity and economics life and lectures widely. B.A., Stonehill College; B.A., the Gregorian University; M.A., Harvard University.

Rev. Paulinus I. ODOZOR, C.S.SP. is Associate Professor of moral theology and the theology of world Church at the University of Notre Dame and is president of the Governing Council of Spiritan International School of Theology, Enugu, Nigeria, where he was teacher and Academic Dean from 1993 to 1999. Some of his publications include: Richard A. McCormick and the Renewal of Moral Theology (Notre Dame University Press, 1995); Sexuality, Marriage and Family: Readings in the Catholic Tradition (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001); Moral Theology in an Age of Renewal: A Study of the Catholic Tradition since Vatican II (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003); A monograph, Tradition and Morality: An African Christian Inquiry, is expected in 2011. In addition to his academic engagements Fr. Odozor has held positions of pastoral leadership in Nigeria, Canada, and the United States. In October 2009 he was invited by the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, as special expert assistant to the 2nd Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops.

Dr. Matthew SLAUGHTER is Associate Dean of the M.B.A. Program and Signal Companies' Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned a B.A., the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D., the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Bishop Mario TOSO is Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and Titular Bishop of Bisarcio. He earned a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical Salesian University in 1981 and a licentiate in theology at the Pontifical Lateran University in 1982. Since 1980, he has served as Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Salesian University and from 1991 as Professor of Theoretical Philosophy. From 1994 to 2000, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. In 2003, he was appointed Rector, a position he held until 2009. Bishop Toso was one of the collaborators consulted by Pope Benedict XVI in preparation of the encyclical letter Caritas in Veritate.

Professor Amelia (Amy) UELMEN is Director of the Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer's Work, Fordham University School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on how Catholic social thought can shed light on tort law, legal ethics and legal education. She has also worked as a consultant for the Focolare's Economy of Communion project. She holds a B.A. and J.D., Georgetown University; and an M.A. in Theology, Fordham University.

Dr. Johan VERSTRAETEN, is Professor of Theological Ethics, Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Religious Studies and Interreligious Dialogue, and Director of the Centre for Catholic Social Thought the Catholic University of Leuven. He also delivers interactive seminars on leadership and spirituality to senior executives at the Avicenna Academy for Leadership and the Comenius International Leadership Programme (The Netherlands). He has published widely on religious ethics, business ethics, leadership and spirituality, including Catholic Social Thought: Twilight or Renaissance? (Co-author, Leuven University Press), Scrutinizing the Signs of the Times in the Light of the Gospel (Co-author, Leuven University Press), Business Ethics Broadening the Perspectives (editor, Leuven, Peeters) and several books in Dutch. From 1996-2004 he was director and chairman of the European Ethics Network, and is a co-founder of the International Association for Catholic Social Thought.

Dr. Alan WOLFE is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. He is also a Senior Fellow with the World Policy Institute, and serves on a number of governing and advisory boards. His books include The Future of Liberalism, (Alfred A. Knopf), Does American Democracy Still Work?, (Yale University Press), and Whose Keeper?: Social Science and Moral Obligation, (University of California Press). B.S., Temple University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Stefano ZAMAGNI is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna, where he has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics, and Senior Adjunct Professor of International Economics and Vice Director of the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences, Bologna, Modena, and Milan and a member of the several editorial boards. He has long served the Pontifical Academy of Social Science and been a contributor to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. He did his studies in economics at the University of Milan and Oxford University.