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© 2020, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847111658 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737011655 KardinalPeterK.A.Turkson(Vatikan/Rom) Investmentwithin theFrameworkof the“Environment, SocietyandGovernance”.ACatholicChurchPerspective 1. Introduction Theglobal financial crisis (2008–2011),whose roots lay inquestionable, if not aberrant,practicesinthefinancialmarketshadalotoflessonstoteachaboutthe financial industry. The former Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace of the Holy Seemade itself an advocate of someof these lessons, publishing a small study inwhichitcalledforareformoftheinternational financialandmonetary systems in the context of a global public authority. In so doing, the Vatican Dicasterywas inspired andguidedby the suggestionof theCouncil Fathers of VaticanIIthat“givingwitnessandvoicetothefaithofthewholepeopleofGod”1, theChurchprovideseloquentproofofhersolidaritywith,aswellasherrespect andlovefortheentirehumanfamilywithwhichit isboundup,byengagingwith it in conversationabout its variousproblems.2The study, “Towards reforming theInternational financialandmonetarysystemsinthecontextofglobalpublic authority”3 sought to initiate one such conversation, at the same timemaking suggestions forending thecrisis andavoiding its recurrence. Sincethen,theVaticanDicastery(forJusticeandPeace)hasmergedwiththree others, becoming now theDicastery for Promoting IntegralHumanDevelop- ment.4Following thepublicationof theEncyclical LetterofPopeFrancis,Lau- dato si’: On theCare of ourCommonHome (2015), on integral ecology andon how everything on earth and in our commonhome is interconnected, the at- tentionofthenewVaticanDicastery isengagedby thespecificareaof theworld of financewhichmay be referred to as themanagement of financial assets or 1 PaulVI.,GaudiumetSpes,Vatican1965,1. 2 Ibid. 3 PontificalCouncil for JusticeandPeace,TowardsReforming the InternationalFinancial and MonetarySystems intheContextofGlobalPublicAuthority,Vatican2011. 4 ApostolicLetterissuedMotuPropriobytheSupremePontiffFrancisInstitutingtheDicastery forpromoting IntegralHumanDevelopment,August2016. Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0