Live out the Gospel in the workplace, Pope tells business leaders
November 02, 2015
Pope Francis received 7,000 members of the Christian Union of Italian Business Executives in audience on October 31 and called upon them to live out the Gospel in the workplace in accord with the Church’s social doctrine.
“I encourage you to live your entrepreneurial vocation in the spirit characteristic of that of a lay missionary,” he said to the business leaders gathered in the Paul VI Audience Hall.
The Pope encouraged business leaders, entrepreneurs, and managers to work together for the common good and to create jobs for unemployed youth “in an entrepreneurial spirit of solidarity.”
Lamenting the firing of women who become pregnant, the Pope also said that “the woman must be guarded, helped in this double work: the right to work and the right of motherhood.”
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Further information:
- dienza all’Unione Cristiana Imprenditori Dirigenti (UCID) (Holy See Press Office)
- Pope: Companies and executive offices can become places of holiness (Vatican Radio)
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