Pope holds Mass for 6000 homeless people at the Vatican

Pope Francis, on Sunday held a Mass for about 6000 poor and homeless people from 12 European countries and Africa at the Vatican. 

Pope Francis during the Mass warned against the "anaesthetised consciences" of those who see the needy as bothersome instead of as brothers and sisters who needed to be helped.

The 6,000 homeless, poor and displaced people were brought to the Vatican by charity groups to have their own special day in the Catholic Church's Jubilee Year of Mercy, which ends next week.

"We should be worried when our consciences are anaesthetised and we no longer see the brother or sister suffering at our side, or notice the grave problems in our world, which become a mere refrain familiar from the headlines on the evening news," said Pope Francis.

The Pope said the world's needy, should be seen as "concrete people, not useless objects but precious persons".

Speaking to well-to-do people n the society, Pope Francis said;

"There is no peace in the homes of the prosperous as long as justice is lacking in the home of everyone.

"It is the symptom of a spiritual sclerosis when we are only interested in objects to be produced rather than in persons to be loved. This is the origin of the tragic contradiction of our age: as progress and new possibilities increase, which is a good thing, less and less people are able to benefit from them," he said.