Any just society, any just social order, requires a healthy and vibrant business community. Think of what is happening today in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Lithuania, where the business community has been frustrated for years. The aspect under which I am considering the business community is the importance of human labor. His focus was on homo faber , on man the worker. From the beginning therefore he is called to work.
Work is one of the characteristics that distinguishes man from the rest of the animal kingdom.
Only man is capable of work, and only man occupies his existence an earth by work. At the same time work contains the unceasing measure of human toil and suffering. The Church is convinced that work is a fundamental dimension of man's existence on earth. Human work is a constant factor both of social life and of the Church's social teaching. The study of the question of work has continually been brought up to date, while maintaining that Christian basis of truth which can be called ageless.