Pope on Christmas: Jesus was poor, so don’t be power hungry

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Recalling Jesus’s birth in a stable, Pope Francis rebuked those “ravenous” for wealth and power at the expense of the vulnerable, including children, in a Christmas Eve homily decrying war, poverty, and greedy consumerism.

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