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		</div><p>Pope Francis has urged Christians to forgo the greed, hoarding and materialism of Christmas and to focus instead on its message of simplicity, charity and love.</p>
<p>Francis celebrated a Christmas Eve Mass on Monday night in St Peter’s Basilica, opening a busy week for the pope that includes a Christmas Day message and blessing, a December 26 prayer, New Year’s Eve vespers and a January 1 Mass.</p>
<p>During his homily, Francis lamented that many people find meaning in possessions.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">By contemplating God, who became a child, radiating light from the humility of the crib, we can also become witnesses to humility, tenderness and goodness. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Christmas?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Christmas</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Pope Francis (@Pontifex) <a href="https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/1077330578310074369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 24, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>He said: <em>“An insatiable greed marks all human history, even today, when paradoxically a few dine luxuriantly while all too many go without the daily bread needed to survive.”</em></p>
<p>Francis’ has focused on the world’s poor and downtrodden during his five-year papacy.</p>
<p>The Catholic Church’s first Latin American pope has denounced the global financial system that he says make the rich richer at the expense of the poor.</p>
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