'We must take respon­sibili­ty for everyt­hing before God, our brothe­rs and our creati­on'VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis in his year-end message said that 2017 had been marred by war, lies and injustice, and he urged people to take responsibility for their actions. At his last public event of the year, an evening vespers service in Saint 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”. In April, Pope Francis condemned the “unacceptable massacre” of innocent civilians in a chemical weapons attack in Syria. On January 1, the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics will say a Mass to mark the Church’s World Day of Peace.

Source: The Express Tribune January 01, 2018 08:48 UTC