Pope warns of spiritual poverty

vatican city - Pope Francis on Sunday warned during his New Year's Service for selfishness and spiritual isolation. ' The spiritual poverty gets in a narcissistic heart more and more space that in themselves and self-interest is addressed, '' said the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

This attitude, according to Francis ' a cancer that easy eating away the soul and ruins'. He fears in a fragmented and divided culture ' increase of orphaned feeling and the great emptiness and loneliness' by the loss of family ties.

The pope recalled for about 50. 000 faithful in St. Peter's Square to the victims of the attack on the nightclub in Istanbul. ' Unfortunately, the violence has also struck again in this night of wishes and hopes. ' He said to pray for the visitors shot dead and their survivors.