Vatican, Ethics, & Truth II (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Full Text: Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace 2011-10-24 Vatican Radio Please find, below, an unofficial translation of the Note on the reform of the international financial and monetary systems in the context of global public authority, released Monday by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. ****************** Pontifical …

Vatican, Ethics, & Truth I (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Vatican meets OWS: ‘The economy needs ethics’ Cathy Lynn Grossman USA TODAY, 24 October 2011 St. Peter’s Square, meet Zuccotti Park. The Vatican today elaborated on Pope Benedict XVI’s call for a global entity to bring justice and compassion to the world economy. “The economy needs ethics,” says the new document released today by the …

Blackwater’s New Ethics Chief: John Ashcroft

The consortium in charge of restructuring the world’s most infamous private-security firm just added a new chief in charge of keeping the company on the straight and narrow. Yes, John Ashcroft, the former U.S. attorney general, is now an “independent director” of Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater. Ashcroft will head Xe’s new “subcommittee on …