The Vatican's Justice council targets business leaders
TORONTO - Though we all participate in the global economy by buying things and services, it鱿鱼视频app pretty hard to take personal responsibility for globalization 鈥 but somebody has to, says the Vatican.
The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace has issued a kind of digest of Pope Benedict XVI鱿鱼视频app latest encyclical and aimed it squarely at business leaders. 鈥淭he Vocation of the Business Leader鈥 is a 30-page booklet aimed at business professionals mentoring young employees and professors in business schools. It extensively quotes and summarize Benedict鱿鱼视频app encyclical Caritas in Veritate.
Combining faith and business ethics
Christina Leurer has a question that speaks to Catholic business students across the country.
The fourth-year commerce student at the University of British Columbia wonders if faith and business can co-exist and if business can put faith before profit.
鈥淭here are a lot of people focused on the bottom line,鈥 said Leurer. 鈥淚鈥檓 worried I鈥檇 have to make a decision I鈥檓 opposed to. I certainly believe the business world does compromise faith.鈥