Ethical investment: a Christian perspective

[tree_and_leaf]

I don't often read the business pages, but sometimes something catches my eye. Today it was an article about Patricia Daly, a Dominican nun interested in social responsibility, investment, and how shareholders can hold companies to an ethical account. Indeed, she argues that acting responsibly benefits the companies themselves in the long run.

Fascinating take on business, ethics and politics, anyway, and the reference to the origins of the order at the end of the article gladdened my Dominic fangirl's heart. And it's always good to see the church being noticed for ethical teachings other than on sex....

On another subject, although vaguely connected, as it came up during research into anothe politically active Dominican one, albeit one of a different vintage, I'm surprised to discover that some academic journals supply their articles in PDF form without a coversheet indicating which journal the article comes from. This is really annoying when you've just downloaded a lot of pieces from Google Scholar in a batch, and have to go back through them to discover where and when the blasted things originally appeared.

Ah well, back to Catherine of Sienna...

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[tree_and_leaf]

Much of it is the media, becuase they don't seem to find church campaigns on social justice etc newsworthy. On the other hand, large sections of the church don't help themselves, as you point out, and it's really quite sickening.

I can't remember hearing a word in living memory about domestic violence, teenage boys fathering children (as opposed to teenage girls giving birth) (and surely an outbreak of teh_gay is an answer to that problem :-)) or the general covetousness that surrounds us

CS Lewis, hardly an icon of socialism or liberalism, pointed this out (with particular reference to the covetousness) about fifty years ago. Unfortunately it's got worse since his day, rather than better. Still, people like Sr Daly make me feel slightly less hopeless about it all... And groups like Church Action on Poverty, or the Iona Community, fight quite a good fight - the trouble is, too few people seem to care.