PNN – In his first sermon as the new pope, Pope Leo XIV lamented the centrality of money, technology, power, and pleasure in human life today.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network from the English newspaper The Guardian, the Pope lamented in a ceremony attended by senior Vatican cardinals that “technology, money, success, power and pleasure” are valued more than faith in Christianity.
He warned that in many parts of the world, the Christian faith is seen as absurd and something for the weak and inferior, and believers are ridiculed, opposed, despised, or at best, tolerated and pitied.
The new pope said: Often the figure of Jesus Christ is reduced to a mere charismatic leader or superhero, and this is seen not only among non-believers, but even among the baptized who end up living their lives in practical atheism.
Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first mass as pope, calling his election a divine gift to carry the Holy Cross of Christ.