Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace 24 October 2011: "What has driven the world in such a problematic direction for its economy and also for peace? First and foremost, an economic liberalism that spurns rules and controls. Economic liberalism is a theoretical system of thought, a form of “economic apriorism” that purports to derive laws for how markets function from theory, these being laws of capitalistic development, while exaggerating certain aspects of markets. An economic system of thought that sets down a priori the laws of market functioning and economic development, without measuring them against reality, runs the risk of becoming an instrument subordinated to the interests of the countries that effectively enjoy a position of economic and financial advantage. "
Resultatet av de lutherska och de romersk-katolska kyrkornas arbete med att övervinna sina läromässiga åsiktsmotsättningar presenterades i dokumentet ”Gemensam deklaration om rättfärdiggörelseläran” som undertecknades den 31.10.1999 i Augsburg. Efter att dokumentet godkänts kvarstår små teologiska tolkningsskillnader gällande rättfärdiggörelseläran, men i de mest centrala lärokonflikterna som splittrade kyrkan har man fått till stånd ett första försoningsdokument sedan reformationen.