It is important “to be vigilant so that in our lives and in our families, we do not marginalise the elderly,” said the pope during Mass at St Peter’s to celebrate the third World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly.
“Let us be careful that our crowded cities do not become ‘concentrations of loneliness’, lest politics, which is called to provide for the needs of the most fragile, forgets precisely about the elderly, letting the market relegate them to ‘unproductive waste’,” he added.
“Let it not happen that, by dint of chasing the myths of efficiency and performance at full speed, we become incapable of slowing down to accompany those who struggle to keep up,” said the 86-year-old Pontiff.
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