Monaco, March 28, 2026 (AFP) - Pope slams widening 'chasms between the poor and the rich'

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2026-03-28

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday condemned the widening "chasms between the poor and the rich" during a visit to the tiny Catholic principality of Monaco, a playground of millionaires on the French Riviera. In an address in French from the balcony of the Prince's Palace, the American pope denounced "unjust configurations of power, structures of sin that dig chasms between poor and rich, between the privileged and the rejected, between friends and enemy."......

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