Auxiliary Bishop Salvatore Fisichella - the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life
Wednesday 18 June 2008
Monday 9 June 2008
"The highest reward [or punishment] for man's toil is not what he gets from it, but what he becomes by it."
"The excessive pursuit and desire for money and power, the cold pragmatic instrumental reasoning of treating employees as means only, rather than ends, the prideful conceit of understanding business as only a career, etc., are all indicators to a destiny that excludes God. ... One of the most powerful insights in Catholic social teaching comes from John Paul II's 1981 encyclical letter on work, "Laborem Excercens." He explains that work is not only about the effective changes on products and services, but more profoundly the change work has on the person.
As John Ruskin put it, "The highest reward [or punishment] for man's toil is not what he gets from it, but what he becomes by it." "
Michael Naughton, the Moss Endowed Chair in Catholic Social Thought and director of the John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.
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