Prelate reflects on the family and work

June 01, 2012

The secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family discussed “work and its meanings for the family” at the beginning of the second session of the Seventh World Meeting of Families in Milan.

“When it is completed in view of God, under the gaze of the Father, work reflects its original holiness and strengthens the person and his filial being,” said Bishop Jean Laffitte. “It is through such maturation that man becomes capable of giving of himself one day, in a privileged manner within the family.”

“The sanctity of work is contradicted by all of the activities that aim directly at depriving people of this dimension, oppressing them by way of inhuman social structures that reduce them to mere instruments of profit, depriving them of the just fruits of their activity, widening the disparity in the destination of goods,” he added.

 

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Further information:

• Bishop Laffitte: Work and its meanings for the family (VII World Meeting of Families)
• World Meeting of Families opens in Milan (CWN, 5/31)