Pope Francis on Sunday hosted around 1,500 poor and homeless people for
lunch at the Vatican, decrying indifference to poverty as the Catholic
Church marked its World Day of the Poor.
“My thoughts go to those who… have promoted solidarity initiatives to
give concrete hope to the most disadvantaged,” Pope Francis told a mass
in Saint Peter’s Square ahead of the lunch.
“Recently I saw some statistics on poverty. They make you suffer —
the indifference of society towards the poor,” the pope said, thanking
the medical staff who were providing free health care to the poor at the
Vatican.
He also criticised what he called “the frenzy of running, of
achieving everything right now, anyone left behind is viewed as a
nuisance. And considered disposable.”
“How many elderly, unborn, disabled and poor persons are considered
useless. We go our way in haste, without worrying that gaps are
increasing, that the greed of a few is adding to the poverty of many
others.”
The pope then joined his 1,500 guests for lunch in the Vatican’s vast Paul VI Hall.
The menu consisted of lasagna, chicken nuggets with cream of mushrooms and potatoes, dessert, fruit, and coffee.
“Thank you to the pope and thank you to the Vatican, because the
Vatican helps so many poor people, and it also helps by providing
medicine, this lunch, of course, clothes, so many things,” said Oscar, a
Lithuanian who has lived in Italy for 13 years.
“We don’t have good money because we work seven hours, eight hours,
some people sometimes 10 hours for just 30 euros, so this is hard,” said
Gambian migrant worker Lamin Jarra.
Dozens of volunteers helped bring the poor to the Vatican and serve
the food, including Lorenzo Ferraro, who stressed the importance of
openness towards “the most deprived, the weakest.”
“In a climate of general selfishness, the pope also remembers these people,” he said.
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