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custom_padding=&#8221;20px|||0px|false|false&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;0px||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #054368;\">The Role of Profit in Business<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #054368;\">by CAPP-USA<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36059\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 400px;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36059 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/money-wealth-profit-business-case-cash-excess-profiteering-horde.jpg\" alt=\"The role of profit is legitimate and must always serve human dignity\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36059\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-36059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Role of Profit is essential to business&#8230; AND must ensure human dignity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">Is Profit Good?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Let&#8217;s examine the role of profit. Pope St. John Paul II declared, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Church acknowledges the legitimate role of profit as an indication that a business is functioning well. When a firm makes a profit, this means that productive factors have been properly employed and corresponding human needs have been duly satisfied.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/centesimus-annus\/#35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Centesimus Annus, 35)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">What is the Role of Profit?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>&#8220;Profit is a regulator of the life of a business, but it is not the only one; other human and moral factors must also be considered which, in the long term, are at least equally important for the life of a business.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/centesimus-annus\/#35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Centesimus Annus, 35)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, &#8220;It is possible for the finance accounts to be in order, and yet for the people \u2014 who make up the firm&#8217;s most valuable asset \u2014 to be humiliated and their dignity offended.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"> <a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/centesimus-annus\/#35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Pope St. John Paul II, 35)<\/a> <\/span>So, while profit is an essential aspect of business it should also be used to ensure basic needs and the human dignity of employees are being met.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">Keep our Eyes on the Big Picture<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><br \/><\/span>At its essence, a business is to serve humanity and society.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;In fact, the purpose of a business firm is not simply to make a profit, but is to be found in its very existence as a community of persons who in various ways are endeavouring to satisfy their basic needs, and who form a particular group at the service of the whole of society.&#8221; <span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/centesimus-annus\/#35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Pope St. John Paul II, 35)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pope St. John Paul II was careful to reiterate this teaching several times in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/centesimus-annus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Centesimus Annus)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Profit is a regulator of the life of a business, but it is not the only one&#8221;.\u00a0<a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/centesimus-annus\/#35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_01051991_centesimus-annus.html\"><i>(Pope St. John Paul II, 35)<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">Consistent Catholic Social Teaching<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><br \/><\/span>This conclusion had been set forth several times by Pope St. John Paul II&#8217;s predecessors, as well as confirmed by his successors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consider <strong>Pope St. Paul VI&#8217;s<\/strong> unambiguous pronouncement that <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;certain concepts have somehow&#8230; insinuated themselves into the fabric of human society. These concepts present profit as the chief spur to economic progress, free competition as the guiding norm of economics, and private ownership of the means of production as an absolute right, having no limits nor concomitant social obligations. This unbridled liberalism paves the way for a particular type of tyranny, rightly condemned by Our predecessor <strong>Pius XI<\/strong>, for it results in the &#8216;international imperialism of money.&#8217; Such improper manipulations of economic forces can never be condemned enough; let it be said once again that economics is supposed to be in the service of man.&#8221; <span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/populorum-progressio\/#26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Populorum Progressio, 26)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Pope Benedict XVI<\/strong>: The \u201cconviction that the economy must be autonomous, that it must be shielded from \u2018influences\u2019 of a moral character, has led man to abuse the economic process in a thoroughly destructive way.\u201d <span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/capp-usa.org\/caritas-in-veritate\/#34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Caritas in Veritate, 34)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Pope Francis<\/strong>: The current system \u201cis by now intolerable\u201d. \u201c[T]hat system has imposed the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion\u2026An unfettered pursuit of money rules\u201d. \u201cOnce capital becomes an idol and guides people\u2019s decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another\u201d. <span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a class=\"alternate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/speeches\/2015\/july\/documents\/papa-francesco_20150709_bolivia-movimenti-popolari.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Address to the Second World Meeting of Popular Movements, Bolivia, 1)<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #054368;\">The Bottom Line for the Role of Profit<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><br \/><\/span>The charge NOT to reverse, or confuse, means and ends \u2013 to always keep the person and needs of society at the center \u2013 has consistently been understood by the Church. 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