The kind of diversity sought after at a hospital, an engineering firm or a Catholic university should differ according to the gifts necessary for the mission of such institutions.
Economics
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Activists are calling it Hot Labor Summer. Catholics should welcome it.
Catholic social teaching is clear on the best tool to promote a just wage: organized labor.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Latest Vatican financial scandal involves former monastery that housed Jews during WWII
At least $17 million has been transferred from the Vatican’s U.S.-based missionary fundraising coffers into an impact investing vehicle run by a priest, the former head of the U.S. organization.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic charity leaders alarmed by Republican efforts to tie debt ceiling debate to work requirements
Debt ceiling negotiations are rankling some Catholic leaders.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft.
Calling programs like ChatGPT “artificial intelligence” grants them a claim to authorship that is simply untrue.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse revealed the moral hazards of our banking system
Why do banking crises keep happening? When depositors are protected, some banks cannot resist making risky loans. And paying fines for doing so has become a usual cost of doing business.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: The Vatican’s mega-trial of the century—and the cardinal at the center of it
On this week’s episode of Inside the Vatican, Ricardo and Gerry discuss the most recent happenings in the Vatican’s mega-trial of the century with the Vatican bank.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Silicon Valley Bank, Catholic social teaching and libertarian hypocrisy
Catholic social teaching has always acknowledged a role for government regulation of the economy. The economy is to promote the common good, not benefit owners and investors alone.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Top Vatican official says London property deal was a double ‘Via Crucis’
Ten people are on trial in the Vatican, facing multiple charges regarding the Vatican Secretariat of State’s investment in a property on Sloane Avenue in London. The Vatican lost more than $200 million on the deal.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis says cardinals, top Vatican officials, must pay rent on Vatican housing
The pope said that cardinals and senior Vatican officials will now have to pay “ordinary” rent payments on the apartments owned by the Vatican in Rome.