Pope Francis has urged South Koreans, among Asia's richest people, to beware of the spiritual "cancer" that often accompanies affluent societies, as he led a mass on Friday to commemorate the more than 300 people killed in a ferry disaster in April.
Pope Francis Visits South Korea
Tens of thousands of Asian Catholics gave a boisterous welcome to the pope as he celebrated his first public mass in south Korea, a country with a small but growing church that is seen by the Vatican as a model for the rest of the world.
Pope Francis took a high-speed train to the central city of Daejeon, where catholic youths from across Asia have been meeting for the Asian version of world youth day.
Hundreds of trees were decked with yellow ribbons in the city in remembrance of those who died mostly school children when the Sewol ferry sank.
In the homily of the mass, the pope urged listeners to "combat the allure of a materialism that stifles authentic spiritual and cultural values and the spirit of unbridled competition which generates selfishness and strife".
He said they should see their faith as an "antidote to the spirit of despair that seems to grow like a cancer in societies which are outwardly affluent, yet often experience inner sadness and emptiness".
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Pope Francis Visits South Korea
Tens of thousands of Asian Catholics gave a boisterous welcome to the pope as he celebrated his first public mass in south Korea, a country with a small but growing church that is seen by the Vatican as a model for the rest of the world.
Pope Francis took a high-speed train to the central city of Daejeon, where catholic youths from across Asia have been meeting for the Asian version of world youth day.
Hundreds of trees were decked with yellow ribbons in the city in remembrance of those who died mostly school children when the Sewol ferry sank.
In the homily of the mass, the pope urged listeners to "combat the allure of a materialism that stifles authentic spiritual and cultural values and the spirit of unbridled competition which generates selfishness and strife".
He said they should see their faith as an "antidote to the spirit of despair that seems to grow like a cancer in societies which are outwardly affluent, yet often experience inner sadness and emptiness".
- See more at: http://aitonline.tv/post-pope_francis_visits_south_korea#sthash.sBARqooO.dpuf
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