POPE WARNS ABOUT GREED AND CONSUMPTION IN HIS CHRISTMAS MESSAGE TO THE WORLD

Sun 25 December 2022:

At the Vatican on Sunday, a celebration of the Christmas Festival, which honors the birth of Jesus Christ in Christianity, was led by Pope Francis.

This year, 7,000 people watched Christmas Mass held at the Vatican’s famous St. Peter’s Basilica with limited participation for the last two years because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The pope warned about greed and consumption and said people have been consuming their neighbors and even their brothers due to their hunger for power and money.

“While animals feed in their stalls,” he said, “men and women in our world, in their hunger for wealth and power, consume even their neighbours, their brothers and sisters.”

He lamented the proliferation of wars and injustice, and their deleterious effects on human dignity and freedom, especially that of children.

Pope Francis then turned to the message of “poverty” expressed in the manger, which was surrounded by very little except love.

“The poverty of the manger,” he said, “shows us where the true riches in life are to be found: not in money and power, but in relationships and persons.”

Emphasizing that the poor should not be forgotten at Christmas, he said he also thinks of children victimized by wars.

Francis, the spiritual leader of the Catholic world, will address the traditional “Urbi et Orbi,” or Rome and the world, in which he gives messages about world issues, after Christmas Mass at noon.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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