A packed room. There was all the elite of Italian finance and entrepreneurship, husbands with wives and children in tow, but there were also many employees and collaborators. At 10:30 the great Confindustria family had already invaded the Nervi Hall for a historic event: the audience with Pope Francis. In 106 years of history of Confindustria there had never been a meeting between the world so Plenary of Italian industrialists and a Pontiff.
In seven awaited the Pope’s arrival, scheduled for 12 compounds and trembling. Alert and excited. Curious to see what would he told them this Pope so different from its predecessors, this Pope who in simple terms is always able to grasp the key points of the issues. the thorniest too.
Greeted like a star, between applause and flashes of thousands of phones, Francesco as always hit the mark. The function of the entrepreneur – he said, taking up a passage of the Encyclical Praised be ‘- is “a noble vocation oriented to produce wealth and a better world for all”, but now has to prove even more forcefully its social function. Industrialists must become “builders of a new labor humanism” that is centered on “the dignity, absolute value and unavailable.”
Confindustria wanted to give a title to this meeting, which stands on badges of all present: “Be Together”. The Pope reminds and urges him: “Do not be just a slogan, but a program for the present and the future.” The soil is fertile, sure. At least one cultivated by those present in the hall. The three “greetings” to the Pope (the Confindustria President Giorgio Squinzi, ad Unicredit, Federico Ghizzoni, and chairman of Eni, Emma Marcegaglia) are a demonstration: they speak of “responsibility”, “faith”, “commitment “,” solidarity “,” sustainable development “,” values ”. Francis listens and nods. But then when they took the floor it soon becomes clear that will go further. It is an almost utopian world of work that relied on by the Pope. A world that includes the excluded, “the most vulnerable and marginalized, such as the elderly, who may still express resources and energy to an active collaboration but are too often discarded as useless and unproductive. ” Like young “prisoners of insecurity or long periods of unemployment.”
But Francis utopias we believe, and therefore urges the industry to “bold steps”, indicating that “royal road of justice, which rejects the shortcuts of recommendations and favoritism, and the dangerous deviations of dishonesty and of easy compromise.” In this “altruism horizon” it is part of the most vigorous reminder of the Pope: “You refuse categorically that human dignity is trampled upon in the name of production requirements, which mask myopia individualistic, sad egoism and thirst for profit.” And from the room perhaps most thunderous applause of the entire audience.
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