Investments: Catholic Values Investing

“From a Catholic perspective, ethical and socially responsible investing, as the strategy has come to be known, requires us to evaluate specific investments in terms of how those companies or entities protect life, promote human dignity, act justly, enhance the common good, and provide care for the environment. These are broad categories, but they are also necessary human values.”

Socially Responsible Investment Guidelines for The United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops (2021)

One resource to use in this area is the “Socially Responsible Investment Guidelines for The United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops”. Originally drafted in 2003 and recently update in 2021, this document has become a type of benchmark and form of guidance for Catholic Values Investing.

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These are the issues presented in the Bishops’ document:

Protecting Human Life

Abortion, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide

In Vitro Fertilization

Embryonic Stem Cell and Fetal Tissue Research

Human Cloning Access to Drugs and Vaccines

Promoting Human Dignity

Human Rights Discrimination

Pornography and Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Human Trafficking and Forced Labor

The Human Person

Marriage, Sexual Integrity, and Family

Contraceptives

Enhancing the Common Good

Reducing Arms Production

Addictive Materials or Harmful Habitual Behaviors

Media and Telecommunications

Pursuing Economic Justice

Encouraging Social, Environmental, and Financial Responsibility

Labor Standards

Affordable Housing/Banking Impact Investing

Saving Our Global Common Home

Climate Change

Biodiversity

Water and Natural Resources

Technology

Environmental Impact