“Poverty is a scandal and when the Lord returns, he will ask us to account for it”, said Francis in a homily.
He urged the faithful to think “of the many material, cultural and spiritual poverties of our world, of the wounded existences that inhabit our cities, of the poor who have become invisible, whose cry of pain is stifled by the general indifference of a busy and distracted society.
“We think of those who are oppressed, fatigued, marginalised, the victims of wars and those who leave their homeland risking their lives, those who are without bread, without work and without hope”, said the Argentine pontiff.
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