Vatican Bank Launches Catholic Principles Equity Indices with Morningstar

The Vatican Bank, in partnership with Morningstar, debuted two Catholic-themed equity indexes on February 10, 2026: the Morningstar IOR Eurozone Catholic Principles and the Morningstar IOR US Catholic Principles. Each index includes 50 medium- and large-cap companies screened against the IOR’s Catholic investment policies, including sanctity of life, environmental protection, and anti-corruption. The U.S. index’s top components are Meta and Amazon.com; the Eurozone index includes ASML Holding and Deutsche Telekom. The indexes join existing ESG benchmarks, such as the S&P 500 Catholic Values Index launched by S&P Dow Jones Indices and licensed to Global X, with NVIDIA and Apple among its top holdings.