Vatican City, Mar 5, 2006 / 22:00 pm
On Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI met with 8,000 members of Italy’s Christian Union of Entrepreneurs and Managers (UCID), with whom he stressed the deep need for a Christian ethic in the world of business, particularly in building a socially just society.
The statutes of the Union have recently received the approval of the Italian Episcopal Conference.
The Holy Father began his address by praising the expressed intent of the business people "to tend towards an ethic that goes beyond a simple professional code of conduct."
He said that this ethic reminded him of the profound relationship between justice and charity, one of the themes of his recent Encyclical "Deus caritas est."