POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: Sermon to Capitalists

POLICIES & PRINCIPLES

In Rome last week, 400 Roman Catholic employers from Western Europe and Canada prepared to go home, carrying with them some memorable advice from Pope Pius XII. Delegates to the first international congress of UNIAPAC (International Union of Catholic Employers' Associations), they had heard the Pope deliver one of his clearest and most important statements to date on economic and social affairs:

". . . There is . . . between employers and workers a reciprocal bond . . . which only blind and unreasonable despotism would attempt to break. Employers and employees are not irreconcilable antagonists . ....

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