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Investing in accord with your Catholic faith doesn't mean you can't make money. Here's proof. Invest from a moral standpoint with Catholic investments that are in complete compliance with the USCCBs (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) Investment Guidelines . Your Catholic values are important and so is the performance of your investment portfolio. By combining Catholic values, as set forth by the USCCB Investment Guidelines, with your investments, you can improve the world as you advance toward your financial goals. Catholic Investment Strategies is a division of Summit Investment Management, a Milwaukee-based registered investment advisor. Summit created Catholic Investment Strategies to offer our Catholic investors high quality investment portfolios without violating the USCCB's guidelines. All of our financial advisors are practicing Catholics who take the Bishops' guidelines for investing very seriously. Its pretty simple really. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has taken the time and effort to publish a 14 page document setting forth a set of investment guidelines. To us, that means that the issue is worthy of attention. We are certainly no match for the combined theological knowledge of this group of Catholic Bishops and, therefore, we are happy to try to comply with their instructions. On one level, its just a simple acknowledgment of our own limitations and obedience to Mother Church. But theres another dimension to it as well. Jesus tells us: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. As we thought about that in our more reflective moments, it occurred to us that if you love someone then you dont want to do anything that may offend them. And we do love God and we dont want to offend Him. When we stand before the Judgment Seat, we dont want to have to explain why we were part owners of a company that was involved in pornography or embryonic stem cell research or racial ...