Pope’s tweet warns against the culture of waste

October 25, 2013 - With a tweet on the social media, Pope Francis on Friday reminded Christians of the danger of the culture of waste saying its spares neither goods nor persons. “The “throw-away” culture produces many bitter fruits, from wasting food to isolating many elderly people,” the Pope wrote on his Twitter account @Pontifiex. The warning echoed his exhortation to the Pontifical Council for the Family, Friday, where he said that a society that abandons children and marginalizes the elderly spells out its own doom. In a separate tweet on its Twitter account (@terzaloggia) Vatican Secretariat of State wrote: “The willingness of the world to move forward to eliminate nuclear weapons has never been more evident.” The words were pronounced by Indian Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, Apostolic Nuncio and Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations in New York, when he addressed a General Assembly meeting on disarmament on Tuesday. (Source: Vatican)