Vatican City, Oct 17, 2011 / 17:09 pm
Pope Benedict XVI called for new ways of doing business, in keeping with the dignity of workers and their families, during an Oct. 15 address to promoters of Catholic social doctrine.
“Family and work are privileged places for the construction of the vocation of man, collaborating in the creative work of God today,” he told the “Fondazione Centesimus Annus - Pro Pontifice,” a Vatican-based lay organization that spreads the Church's social teaching around the world.
Its members met in Rome for a two-day conference on the relationship between family and business.
In his speech to the foundation, the Pope recalled how the Second Vatican Council “spoke of the family in terms of the domestic church, an ‘untouchable sanctuary’ where the person matures in affection, solidarity and spirituality.”