[Based on a Panel Discussion on: “The Successes and Struggles of Catholic Universities in Developing Leaders for Peace and Progress in the Philippines” during the National Conference of the Association of Catholic Universities of the Philippines (ACUP), at the University of the Immaculate Conception in Davao, 10-11 January, 2014. It followed the presentation of Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson, President, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, on “The Formation of New Catholics in Politics].
My greetings to His Eminence Peter Cardinal Turkson, and my gratitude to him for his presentation on the role of Catholic universities in the formation of politicians for the future. I thank the organizers of ACUP for inviting me to participate in this panel discussion. This is a topic which interests me deeply. But for many of my remarks I will lean on the thoughts of Pope Francis in his recent apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium” (EG)…
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