Pope Francis has sent a message to all entrepreneurs

Try to always have the "common good ''as a priority in one's choices and actions, even when this clashes with the "obligations imposed by economic and financial systems".

Thus Papa Francesco receiving at the hearing a group of business leaders from France, gathered in Rome for a pilgrimage led by the bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, Dominique Rey, on the theme of the common good.

"I find it very beautiful and courageous that, in today's world often marked by individualism, indifference and even the marginalization of the most vulnerable people, some entrepreneurs and business leaders have at heart the service of everyone and not just private interests or small circles ”, the Pope told them.

"The search for the common good is a cause for concern for you, an ideal, within the framework of your professional responsibilities. The common good is therefore certainly a determining element of your discernment and your choices as managers, but it must deal with the obligations imposed by the economic and financial systems currently in place, which often make fun of the evangelical principles of social justice and charity. And I imagine that, at times, your assignment weighs on you, that your conscience comes into conflict when the ideal of justice and the common good that you would imagine reaching could not be realized, and that the harsh reality presents itself to you as a lack, a failure, a remorse, a shock ".

"It is important - concluded Francis - that you are able to overcome this and live it in faith, in order to persevere and not be discouraged".