To Globalize Solidarity – Presentation of the book “The Social Saint” by Carlos Ferré

ARGENTINA, Jorge Benedetti/Carlos Eduardo Ferré. At the Dunken Publishing House of Buenos Aires, presentation of the book “THE SOCIAL SAINT – Thinking and Practice of Joseph Kentenich on the Church’s Social Doctrine” took place. Patris Argentina Publishing House published the book. The Rev. Alejandro Blanco from the Federation of Schoenstatt Priests and Jorge A. Benedetti, President of the Thomas More Group, was in charge of the presentation. They referred to the author’s trajectory, made inroads into the analysis of some of the passages in the book, and highlighted the personality of Father Joseph Kentenich.

A contribution toward building covenant culture

Numerous political and social leaders, university professors, diplomats and personalities from the world of culture were present at the event.

In conclusion, Dr. Carlos Ferré expressed that it had been his intention – upon publishing this book – to bring two valuable treasures that remain hidden to mankind today to light. These treasures are: the principles and values of the Social Doctrine of the Church and Father Joseph Kentenich’s social thinking and its consequent action in history. He characterized Father Joseph Kentenich as a prophet of our times and with whom he wanted to be in solidarity.

Some remarks on the book

The Social Saint is a book that combines two great passions of the author: the Church’s thinking – constructed since the incarnation of the Gospel on the social question and the admiration for Father Joseph Kentenich, founder of the Apostolic Schoenstatt Movement, his thinking and his personal testimony.

Joseph Kentenich actively intervened in the history of his time and his country. This caused him to be a prisoner in the Dachau Concentration Camp and the object of multiple persecutions.

The book aspires to embody a dialogue between Father Kentenich’s teaching on social matters – one of the aspects less spread about his enormous personality – and the principles which Christians have been working on since the 19^th Century and have emerged in the social encyclicals and various documents of the Second Vatican Council.

Father Kentenich prophetically warns, at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, that we are living through a change of era and a situation in which modern man must suffer from what he calls an anthropological heresy. Man, dissociated from his fundamental roots, is awkward in his essential freedom and in his personal and community fulfillment by political, social and economic systems, which have provoked the universal crisis we are experiencing and which has had as consequence the terrible phenomenon of exclusion for a large part of humanity.

Father Kentenich proposes a way: solidarity. Decades later, Blessed John Paul II will propose “globalize solidarity.”

Father Kentenich proposes a goal– the new man in the new community– a challenge to build a true, human, universal family.

Facts about the author

Carlos Eduardo Ferré is director of the “John Paul II” Center of Studies for Social Doctrine of the Church in Argentina. From there, he develops a task centered on the formation of men and women concerned for transforming the virtual reality.

Militant since his years as a student, he was a leader of the Catholic University Youth and before concluding his studies in law, he turned to what has been his main vocation: politics. In politics, he held different positions having evolved as a provincial legislator in the Province of Buenos Aires and later as a national congressman.

He presided at the Conference for the Fifth Centennial of Evangelization in America, the Jubilee Association for America, the Institute for Strategic Studies and International Relations, the Thomas More Group and was a member of the Bicameral Commission of the National Congress for the Jubilee Homage for the Year 2000.

He also made inroads into the area of journalism, having obtained the Saint Claire of Assisi award.

He has participated in various Catholic Church organizations and is a member of the Apostolic Schoenstatt Movement.

Passionate for topics connected to the teaching of the Church on social matters, he recently obtained the title of Master in this area by the Pontifical University of Salamanca.

Other presentations

The next presentations will be in Córdoba on May 10th and again in Buenos Aires at the Schoenstatt headquarters (Confidentia) on June 12th. There will also be presentations in Parana and San Miguel and possibly in La Plata.

Carlos Eduardo Ferré: The Social Saint: Thinking and action of Joseph Kentenich on the principles of the Church’s Social Doctrine.

ISBN:978-9870256564

For sale at the Dunken Publishing House

Patris Argentina Publishing House: patrisargentina@gmail.com

Translation: Carlos Cantú, Schoenstatt Family Federation, La Feria, Texas USA 04282012