Breaking news: Pope Benedict XIV has just released (July 2009) anew encyclical, "Charity in Truth." This documentwas released on the eve of a G-8 summit in Italy, and provides a dramaticchallenge to the economic status quo.

Pope John XXIII called for cooperativedevelopment as part of his 1961 encyclical "OnChristianity and Social Progress." (sec 82-90) This was furtheraddressed in 1981 by John Paul II in "On Human Work."

"The Spirit of Scott Bader"describes the values and structure of the Scott Bader Commonwealth.

Erbin Crowell's "Friends' Economic Witness andSustainable Commerce" examines a Quaker view of cooperatives.Crowell is the creator of Equal Exchange's InterfaithProgram, which provides Organic and Fairly Traded

Two articles about the Mondragoncooperatives of Spain's Basque country appeared in the the Winter 2004issue of St. John's University Review of Business: a short interviewwith Juan M. Sinde of Mondragon, (pp 4-5) and a longer aticle by David Herreraof the University of San Diego (pp 56-68).

Tan Soo-Inn writes about what lessons the Church mightlearn from W.L. Gore and Associates, a democratic and worker-owned firm thatemploys 7000 people in more than a dozen countries, and which created Gore-Tex.

The Just Peacewebsite describes the ways in which cooperative economics supports RomanCatholic values.

Andrew McLeod's book "Holy Cooperation!:Building Graceful Economies" is now available fromWipf and Stock. Hisessay "ChristianCooperation" is a brief preview of the subjectmatter. 

Andrew McLeod's report on Jewish, Christian, andMuslim cooperative economics, prepared for the International CooperativeAlliance Research Conference, is available here:hcx3

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