On Sunday, November 16, Pope Leo XIV decried poverty, urging world leaders and Catholics to reach out to marginalised people, as the Church celebrated a “Jubilee of the Poor.”
The pope has made social justice a key theme of his papacy, now in its sixth month since becoming head of the world’s Catholics in May, following the death of Pope Francis.
The Church, Leo said during a mass at St Peter’s Basilica, is “still wounded by old and new forms of poverty” but hopes to be “mother of the poor, a place of welcome and justice.”
I urge heads of state and the leaders of nations to listen to the cry of the poorest.
Following the mass, Pope Leo was to attend a lunch at the Vatican with a group of homeless people, refugees and people with disabilities, while other community events to help the poor were planned around Rome.
