Pope Francis has said that Christmas has been taken hostage by dazzling materialism that puts God in the shadows and blinds many to the needs of the hungry, the migrants and the war weary. The pope, while leading the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics into Christmas for the fourth time since his election in 2013, said in his Christmas Eve homily that a world often obsessed with gifts, feasting and self-centeredness needed more humility. At the solemn but joyous service, attended by some 10,000 people as well as dozens of Cardinals and Bishops, Pope Francis said the many in the wealthy world had to be reminded that the message of Christmas was humility, simplicity and mystery. Security was heightened for the Christmas weekend in Italy and at the Vatican after Italian police killed the man believed to be responsible for the Berlin market truck attack while other European cities kept forces on high alert, St. Peter's square was cleared out six hours before the mass started at the basilica so that security procedures could be put in place for those entering the church later.
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