The pope's mass is traditionally delivered at midnight on Christmas Eve, but was moved to 7.30pm two years ago, to allow the congregation to get home before the Italian government's COVID-19-enforced curfews.
0:58The Pope has used his Christmas Eve mass to rebuke those who are"ravenous" for wealth and power and decry war, poverty and consumerism.
Speaking to around 7,000 pilgrims, tourists and Catholic faithful from St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, Pope Francis spoke about the humility of the birth of Jesus. "While animals feed in their stalls, men and women in our world, in their hunger for wealth and power, consume even their neighbours, their brothers and sisters," he said."How many wars have we seen? And in how many places, even today, are human dignity and freedom treated with contempt?"
Without referring to a specific event, he said:"As always, the principal victims of this human greed are the weak and the vulnerable." He added:"This Christmas, too, as in the case of Jesus, a world ravenous for money, power and pleasure does not make room for the little ones, for the so many unborn, poor and forgotten children.
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