ABSTRACT – The relationships between legal orders, religious principles and economics represent a recognized scientific area to investigate the concrete organization of a social system and the rules adopted to keep a sort of social sustainability. During last decades the theme has reached a newer and more relevant grade of attention, probably because current financial crises have favored the dominancy of financial institutions in shaping the paradigm of everyday life. The aim of this essay is to underline this kind of tension starting from a recent document of The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It should be considered a confirmation of many propositions declared by the Pope in other ecclesiastical acts, but it even definitely means that the Roman Catholic Church has still not established a univocal doctrine to face the neoliberal phase of capitalism, somehow risking to maintain and to enforce this troubled situation.
KEYWORDS – Canon Law, Economy, Financial Law, Religious Ethics, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.