Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church, has urged people across the world to imitate the Christian Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, and desist from being power-hungry.
The Pope made this charge in his message during the splendour of St. Peter’s Basilica Mass attended by about 7,000 faithful, including tourists and pilgrims, who flocked to the church on a warm evening and took their place behind rows of white-robed pontiffs.
He recalled that Jesus Christ, according to Biblical records, was poor during his time on earth.
Pope Francis rebuked those that are extremely hungry for wealth and power to the detriment of others.
The Catholic cleric, recalling Jesus’ birth in a stable, rebuked those “ravenous” for wealth and power at the expense of the vulnerable, including children, in a Christmas Eve homily decrying war, poverty and greedy consumerism, Associated Press reports from the Vatican City.
He drew lessons from the humility of Jesus’ first hours of life in a manger.
Francis said,
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“While animals feed in their stalls, men and women in our world, in their hunger for wealth and power, consume even their neighbours, their brothers and sisters,” the pontiff lamented.
“How many wars have we seen? And in how many places, even today, are human dignity and freedom treated with contempt?
“As always, the principal victims of this human greed are the weak and vulnerable,” said Francis, who didn’t cite any specific conflict or situation.
“This Christmas, too, as in the case of Jesus, a world ravenous for money, power and pleasure does not make room for the little ones, for the so many unborn, poor and forgotten children,” the pope said, reading his homily with a voice that sounded tired and almost hoarse.
“I think above all of the children devoured by war, poverty and injustice.”
“How many wars have we seen? And in how many places, even today, are human dignity and freedom treated with contempt?
“As always, the principal victims of this human greed are the weak and vulnerable,” said Francis, who didn’t cite any specific conflict or situation.
“This Christmas, too, as in the case of Jesus, a world ravenous for money, power and pleasure does not make room for the little ones, for the so many unborn, poor and forgotten children,” the pope said, reading his homily with a voice that sounded tired and almost hoarse.
“I think above all of the children devoured by war, poverty and injustice.”
Christmas is an annual Christian festival, held on December 25 in most parts of the world, including Nigeria, celebrating Jesus Christ’s birth.
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