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“Aligning Faith and Finance: A Missionary Priority” December 2nd, 2022

Vatican Tells Catholics How to Make ‘Faith-Consistent’ Investments

New guidelines discourage investment in mining, contraceptives and violent videogames

By Fr. Séamus P. Finn, OMI, Director, OMIUSA JPIC, OIP

JPIC Director
Fr. Séamus P. Finn, OMI

Shareholder democracy is essentially about every shareholder taking responsibility for their stock ownership positions and acting on them. In Catholic Social Teaching ownership is anchored on the cornerstones of rights and responsibilities. The Vatican Guidelines referenced in this WSJ article took 6 years to produce and will be a very helpful to both institutional and individual shareholders who want to make this a part of their missionary vocation. It was a special opportunity for me to be able to share our OMI decades of experience in faith aligned investing with the members of the committee that produced these guidelines.

For a link to the Wall Street Journal article visit Omiusa.org

 

 


Faith and Finance October 20th, 2010

The ICCR financial services sector team has released a White Paper called “Faith and Finance: Finding Common Ground to Protect the Common Good”. The paper presents principles  considered important both to rebuild the financial system and to restore public confidence in the major financial institutions and  government regulators.

Fr. Seamus Finn, OMI is an active member of the ICCR Financial Services team that is responsible for the paper.

Download a PDF of the paper here…

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