Celebrating Mass with poor people, Pope Francis is denouncing « indifference » as a great sin.
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Celebrating Mass with poor people, Pope Francis is denouncing « indifference » as a great sin.
St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday was filled with poor people as well as prelates as the Catholic church marked its first « World Day for the Poor. »
Francis decried those who contend that poverty’s « not my business, it’s society’s fault. »
He told faithful that a lifetime of « doing nothing wrong isn’t enough » and called helping the world’s poor the « passport for Paradise. » He said people will enter Heaven « not for what you have, but for what you give » to the needy.
Francis has invited 1,200 poor people to join him for a lunch of pasta, veal and dessert in a Vatican auditorium after Mass. Paying attention to those on society’s margins is a hallmark of his papacy.
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