Place the person at the center of enterprise, Pope tells Italian businessmen

February 29, 2016

Pope Francis challenged 7,000 members of the General Confederation of Italian Industry (Confindustria) to create a “real alternative the consumer model of profit at all costs” by placing the human person at the center of business enterprise.

Speaking in the Paul VI Audience Hall on February 27, the Pope said that “this attention to the concrete person carries with it a series of important choices.”

“It means giving to each his own, relieving of mothers and fathers of families the worry of not being able to give a future, or even a present, to their children,” he said. “It means knowing how to direct, but also knowing how to share projects and ideas with humility and trust. It means acting in such a way that one task creates another, one responsibility creates other responsibilities, hope generates other hopes, especially for the younger generations, which today are more than ever are in need.”

 

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Further information:

• Audience to Confindustria businessmen - 2016.02.27 (YouTube Vatican)
• Udienza agli Imprenditori riuniti in Confindustria, 27.02.2016 (Holy See Press Office)
• Pope Francis to Confindustria business people: ‘Justice excludes every favoritism’ (Vatican Radio)