The poor and the homeless
are paying the highest price in the global coronavirus pandemic,
Pope Francis said on Monday.
"The lives of millions of people, in our world already
struggling with so many difficult challenges and oppressed by
the pandemic, have changed and been sorely tried," he said in a
message to the world of street newspapers.
"The most fragile people, the invisible ones, the persons
without homes risk paying the heaviest price."
"Looking to the poorest, in these days, can help us all to
become aware of what is really happening to us, and our true
condition".
At a Vatican Mass earlier Francis said he was praying for
artists and said creativity was needed at this tough time.
"Let us pray today for the artists, who have this very great
capacity for creativity, and via the roads of beauty point the
way for us to follow.
"May the Lord give us all the grace of creativity in this
moment".
The pope was speaking in a homily at Mass at Casa Santa
Marta, the Vatican hostel he lives in.
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