Hunger and war are spreading in the
world, Pope Francis told his 21 new cardinals at an Immaculate
Conception feast Mass in St Peter's Sunday, asking where
financial growth was going.
"What good is money in the bank, the comforts of apartments, the
fake 'contacts' of the virtual world, if then hearts remain
cold, empty, closed?" said Francis at a Mass for he princes of
the Church he created Saturday.
"What good are the high levels of financial growth of privileged
countries, if then half the world dies of hunger and war, and
the others remain to watch indifferently?".
The Argentine pontiff, 87, who is still sporting a bruise on his
chin from hitting a cupboard, spoke in his homily during the
mass in St. Peter's Basilica with the new cardinals, on the
feast of Mary's Immaculate Conception, underlining that "there
is no salvation without women, because the Church is women".
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