Pontiff tells Catholic faithful to reject hedonism but makes no mention of refugee crisis in homily at St Peter’s Basilica
Pope Francis returned to one of his favoured themes in his homily at midnight mass on Christmas Eve at the Vatican,castigating a hedonistic and consumerist society and a culture of indifference.
Meanwhile, one of his senior cardinals, or Vincent Nichols,the archbishop of Westminster and the leader of the Catholic church in England, focused his Christmas Eve message on “gratuitous (uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted) violence” in the domestic and the suffering of persecuted Christians around the world.
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Source: theguardian.com