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May 17, 2018

Every financial decision is a moral choice, Vatican document on economy says

Archbishop Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, lead a May 17 Vatican news conference for the release of a document on the moral dimensions of economic activity. The new document, approved by Pope Francis, says financial and economic decisions can be virtuous or sinful.
VATICAN – Financial and economic decisions -- everything from where a family chooses to invest its savings to where a multinational corporation declares its tax residence -- are ethical decisions that can be virtuous or sinful, a new Vatican document said.
Published in International