Edit: The event mentioned below has been postponed since the publication of this article. Please visit www.cappcanada.ca/launch to stay up-to-date on the new launch date.

To aspiring, emerging, or established lay leaders who wish to join us in a more profound response to Christ’s call to be the salt of the earth, and particularly within their own lay professions:

We write to you during Lent, when we are invited to intensify our corporal and spiritual acts of mercy. Many of us may be unaware of the third and equally important act of mercy to which we are called: to promote and apply Catholic Social Doctrine. For example, to shelter the homeless is vital, but to prevent homelessness by bringing our social, cultural, political, and economic structures and practices into greater conformity with Gospel principles is no less important and often more impactful.

If this resonates for you as it did for us, we invite you to attend the virtual launch, on April 30, of a Canadian chapter of the Vatican-based Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation.

The primary mission of CAPP members is to transform society by cultivating, especially among lay Catholic leaders, a deeper understanding, integration, and holistic application of Catholic Social Doctrine, with its core principles of human dignity, solidarity, and subsidiarity. Our secondary mission is to support Papal charities, directed to urgent needs as they arise. For example, we are currently supporting a special appeal for Papal charities in Ukraine. In advancing our two-fold mission, we also welcome the support and collaboration of non-Catholics, either informally or as “Friends of the Foundation.”

Our lay-led mission is exercised in close unity with our bishops, starting with our founder. Established in 1993 – “Pro Pontifice” (for the Pope) – at the request of Saint John Paul II, CAPP has been supported, promoted, and called upon, by him and his successors. Each national or local CAPP chapter also includes at least one ecclesiastical counsellor. We are blessed to have as our ecclesiastical counsellor Archbishop Christian Lépine of Montreal who, as a parish priest, became involved in supporting a small Montreal-based CAPP group that is now expanding to launch a nation-wide CAPP-Canada chapter.

For more information, to register for our virtual launch or to help promote our event, please visit www.cappcanada.ca/launch

Dr. Cecil Chabot
Professor Danielle Morin
CAPP-Canada Coordinators