The Catholic Church has not been quick or consistent in empowering people to address the harmful effects of the new global economy.

Economic freedom can be morally, not just materially, empowering.

House Republicans will be returning to a fight over raising work requirements for the nation’s 43 million recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program after a previous effort to pass the farm bill flamed out last month.

Everything from where a family chooses to invest its savings to where a multinational corporation declares its tax residence are ethical decisions, according to a new Vatican document.

“In a global economy, what affects other countries affects us all. If we want to have a just and prosperous home, our businesses must sustain ethical practices everywhere.”

The pope has written an introduction to the new book "Potere e Denaro" ("Power and Money").