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Religion News Service  | by  David Gibson VATICAN CITY (RNS) High-level debates over Catholic teachings on marriage and divorce and other hot-button issues heated up on Wednesday (Feb. 19) as a highly anticipated effort to overhaul the Vatican bureaucracy slogged through the... Read More →

By Phil DeMuth Mindy Rosenthal of the Institute for Private Investors has been interviewing young ultra-high-net worth investors.  These individuals, most of whose families are worth over $100 million, do not respond to surveys or questionnaires; you have to know someone to get... Read More →

Column By TED SCHWARTZ As the bull market roared in the 1990s and fortunes were made (and lost in the tech-stock crash of 2000), there came into vogue among some investors a practice known as socially responsible investing, or SRI. Read more at ABC News Read More →

The Washington Post reports on Pope Francis’ new appointments to the advisers for the Vatican Bank, retaining only one of the previously appointed Cardinals. From WaPo: In 2012, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi was ousted as bank president after being accused of incompetence. That... Read More →

By Tom Scheck, Minnesota Public Radio The Rev. Stanley Kozlak served nearly three decades in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. But then he fathered a child and the archdiocese needed him gone. Removing Kozlak quietly wouldn’t be cheap… Read more at MPR News Read More →

Writing in L’Osservatore Romano, a prominent German cardinal defended Pope Francis’s comments about the economy in his recent apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium [The Joy of the Gospel]. Read more at CatholicCulture.org Read More →

By Eleanor Bloxham, CEO of The Value Alliance Board diversity, executive pay, transparency on political contributions, and human rights improvements are all on the agenda for shareholders this proxy season. Read More at CNN Money Read More →

David Gibson (RNS) On one level, the recent clash over Catholic University of America’s decision to accept $1 million from billionaire industrialist Charles Koch underscored the stark divide many see between Catholic social teaching and the libertarian-tinged economics championed... Read More →

Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) — Jason Trennert, managing partner at Strategas Research Partners, talks about U.S. November employment data and the outlook for the stock and gold markets. He speaks with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television’s “Surveillance Midday.”... Read More →

Jillian Berman You may be surprised to learn that, after more than $100 billion in fines and record-breaking penalties and widespread public disgust since the financial crisis it helped create, Wall Street still has America’s trust. At least according to Wall Street. Read... Read More →