"The wars are the flagrant sign of this repeated and absurd pride. But so are all the little and big offences against life, truth, brotherhood, that cause multiple forms of human, social and environmental degradation."
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By Agencies Excerpts | January 1, 2018
'We humans in so many ways ruined and hurt it with works of death, with lies and injustices'
Pope Francis on Sunday issued a year-end message calling on people to take responsibility for their actions in 2017, saying the year was filled with "death, lies and injustices" [The Hill]
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At his last public event of the year, an evening vespers service in St. Peter’s Basilica, the pontiff said that humanity had “wasted and wounded” the year “in many ways with works of death, with lies and injustices”.
While war was the most obvious sign of “unrepentant and absurd pride”, many other transgressions had caused “human, social and environmental degradation”. [Reuters]
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