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Pope warns of falling faith in West
Pope Benedict laments the widespread abandonment of religion in Western countries as he starts Easter celebrations at the Vatican. Deborah ...
POPE Benedict XVI, celebrating Maundy Thursday mass, said he regretted that Western countries had become tired of their faith and weary of their culture and history.
He also paid tribute to his predecessor, John Paul II, ahead of his beatification at the Vatican May 1, the ANSA news agency reported.
"We are full of gratitude to him who was a great witness of God and Jesus Christ in our time, a man who was filled with the Holy Spirit," Pope Benedict said.
The German pontiff said people in the West, the heart of Christendom, were "tired of their faith" during the Mass at St Peter's Basilica to celebrate Maundy Thursday, which commemorates Christ's Last Supper with the apostles before his crucifixion.
"Haven't we, people of God, become for the most part a population of non-believers, distant from God?" he asked.
The Pope told some 500 priests gathered in St Peter's, "Don't allow us to become a non-people".
Joseph Ratzinger, who turned 84 on Sunday, has just marked six years as the pontiff.
He often speaks out against the decline of Christianity of his country and the West in general.
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