Mundell & Associates is part of the Economy of Communion. John Mundell was a guest lecturer in one of my classes this fall, and is participating in an interesting exchange about reciprocity in the marketplace on an earlier post in this blog.
Indiana firm can claim a papal thumbs-up from new social encyclical
By JOHN L. ALLEN JR. on Jul. 07, 2009
Rome
Though the Vatican typically is loathe to put the pope in the position of endorsing a commercial product, in effect a papal thumbs-up is precisely what Mundell & Associates, an environmental consulting firm in Indianapolis, Indiana, can claim from Caritas in Veritate, Benedict XVI’s new social encyclical.
Founded in 1995, Mundell & Associates is a 20-person firm specializing in environmental clean-up and design; for example, it’s currently helping Ball State University convert its entire campus to geothermal energy. Directed by a Catholic couple, Mundell & Associates is also part of the “economy of communion” network of businesses linked to the Focolare movement.
The “economy of communion” was cited by Benedict XVI as a promising form of intermediate activity between for-profit business and classic non-profit institutions, rupturing what the pope called an “exclusively binary model of market-plus-state” which is “corrosive of society.”
Read the rest here.
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