Using these words, Pope Francis urged companies to hire young people.

During his visit to the Italian region of Molise, Pope Francis stated that “it is sad to see so many Young people who neither work nor study.”

In a meeting with thousands of young people who attend the University of Molise and several important people from the industry, he claimed that “the absence of work implicates a loss of human dignity.”

With great simplicity, the Pope established the differences between welfare assistance and employment creation: “the absence of labour implicates a loss of human dignity. The problem of unemployment does not involve not earning money to eat, as we can approach organizations such as Caritas that will provide food for us. The problem is not being able to provide at home, which causes a loss of dignity.”

During his preachment, he insisted on the fact that unemployment is “a plague that demands certain effort from institutions and the business world.”

After talking to sick people of Campobasso and eating with the poor people who receive daily assistance from Caritas, Bergoglio travelled in helicopter to Castelpetroso, in Isernia (Molise).

He did so in order to deliver a message of hope to young people of the diocese of Abruzzo and Molise, who he encouraged to face the challenges caused by the economic crisis with illusion, bravery and solidarity.

This journey has taken place two weeks after the voyage that the Pope did to the southern region of Cassana allo Jonio, a Calabrian town where the local mob, the ‘Ndranghetta, murdered a three years old boy during last January.

There, the Pope pronounced harsh words towards the mob and even excommunicated the gangsters, during a speech in which he stated the  ‘Ndranghetta “is the worship of evil and the despise towards common good.”