Pope Francis called on political leaders around the world to put the welfare of the people above their own and their party’s interests amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“We pray today for the men and women who have a vocation to politics; politics is a high form of charity,” said the pontiff during his April 20 Mass at the Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican, reported Vatican News.
He went on to pray that political parties might “seek together the good of the country and not the good of their own parties” during the global health crisis.
Pope Francis has been drawing attention to the effects of the crisis on society’s most vulnerable sectors, particularly the homeless and migrants.
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