The aim of this article is to provide a concise account of religion’s means of responding to the crises of the contemporary world by expanding the religious project beyond philosophical-cultural aspects to include alternatives of an economic and social nature. In this study, the concept of religious economics is understood in the sense of a theological justification of economic utility, the means employed by the Church in offering solutions (including in terms of economics) to contemporary crises. Without providing a historical record of the subject, this study will focus on the theoretical warnings issued by Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI in the international Catholic journal Communio, as well as the more recent project of Cardinal Peter Turkson and the ideas arising out of the circular Caritas in Veritate: A Catholic Framework for Economic Life. In this context, the position and role of the Church in the “setting of new rules” as part of “shaping a new vision for the future” are also considered, demonstrating that the effects of the theological-economic formula are being fully felt, at the end of 2012 and start of 2013, as an alternative means of addressing the immediate problems of the contemporary world against a backdrop of “amicable secularisation”, of a virtuous fusion of religion and economics.