{"id":15200,"date":"2021-12-10T11:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T10:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/activities\/local\/united-states\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:19:11","slug":"united-states","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/activities\/local\/united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"UNITED STATES"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CAPP-USA<\/a> (Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice, Inc.)<\/b> is the United States affiliate of the Fondazione Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice. Established in 2003, it promotes Catholic Social Teaching in the United States in fidelity to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. Its declared mission, approved by Pope John Paul II, is to evangelize lay leaders and help them form their conscience in accordance with the fundamental principles of SDC (dignity of the human person, solidarity and subsidiarity) so that they may, in turn, spread the spirit and presence of the Catholic Church throughout American society.<\/p>\n

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CAPP-USA is therefore a missionary organization of the Catholic Church, which has been given the task of promoting the knowledge and implementation of that corpus of principles, born of the wisdom of two thousand years of tradition and over a hundred years of attentive observation of the world in which we live, that constitutes the Social Doctrine of the Church.<\/p>\n

To this end CAPP-USA, in cooperation with the Catholic University of America (CUA), established and runs the Certificate Program in Catholic Social Teaching, an annual SDC course now approaching its VIII edition.<\/p>\n

CAPP-USA\u2019s Chairman is Frederick F. Fakharzadeh, President, Treasurer, Director and executive committee member; Robert A. Nalewajek (Presidente Emeritus) is Executive Vice President, Director and executive commitee member; James E. Rice is Vice President, Secretary, Director, Exceutive committee member and Dorector of Vatican CAPP Foundation; Henry Schwalbenberg is Director.<\/p>\n

In accordance with USA tax code requirements, CAPP-USA is an independent entity, with the ability to remove its Directors retained by the Board of Fondazione Centesimus Annus \u2013 Pro Pontifice.<\/p>\n

For further information please go to www.capp-usa.org<\/a><\/p>\n

CONTACTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

President<\/strong>
\nFrederick F. Fakharzadeh MD<\/p>\n

Coordinator Frederick Fakharzadeh.<\/p>\n

Ecclesiastical Counsellors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

National Ecclesiastical\u00a0 Counselor: H.E. Cardinal Joseph William TOBIN, C.S.s.R\u00a0<\/strong>Archidiocesi of Newark.<\/p>\n

Ecclesiastical\u00a0 Counselor: Reverend Father John J. RANIERI.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diocesan Ecclesiastical Assistant\u00a0of Bridgeport: H.E. Bishop Frank Joseph CAGGIANO.\u00a0<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Activities<\/h3>\n

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PREVIOUS YEARS<\/h3>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”15196″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text] CAPP-USA (Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice, Inc.) is the United States affiliate of the Fondazione Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice. Established in 2003, it promotes Catholic Social Teaching in the United States in fidelity to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. Its declared mission, approved by Pope John Paul II, is to evangelize lay leaders and help them form their conscience in accordance with the fundamental principles of SDC (dignity of the human person, solidarity and subsidiarity) so that they may, in turn, spread the spirit and presence of the Catholic Church throughout American society. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] CAPP-USA…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14795,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15200"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25856,"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15200\/revisions\/25856"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}