The meeting began on a Wednesday night at the bucolic campus
of the University
of Saint
Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois, and the frank discussion quickly moved into a variety
of topics including several difficult ones
such as the Council
of Trent, which is particularly anti-Protestant but still binding for Catholics, and the Catholic doctrine
of the church as the prolongation
of the incarnation
of Christ (presented by Father Thomas A. Baima, the Catholic co-chair
of the event), as
well as social issues ranging from
care for the poor, abortion, and the recent developments in gender and sexual ethics in the West.
Research from Queen
Mary University
of London reveals positive aspects
of working life —
such as high levels
of control at work,
good support from supervisors and colleagues, and feeling
cared for — support higher levels
of wellbeing among Britain's workers.