{"id":26035,"date":"2016-06-13T02:34:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T02:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/pope-denounces-marginalisation-of-the-handicapped\/"},"modified":"2016-06-13T02:33:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T02:33:18","slug":"pope-denounces-marginalisation-of-the-handicapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/pope-denounces-marginalisation-of-the-handicapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope denounces marginalisation of the handicapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{He pointed to the way body image has become big business and \u201canything imperfect has to be hidden away\u201d.}<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis, addressing an audience of 20,000 sick and handicapped people at the Vatican on Sunday, decried the marginalisation of those with disabilities, pointing to the way body image has become big business and \u201canything imperfect has to be hidden away\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the last day of the Vatican\u2019s weekend jubilee for the sick and disabled, he said: \u201cThe world does not become better because only apparently \u2018perfect\u2019 people live there, but when human solidarity, mutual acceptance and respect increase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>{{BIG BUSINESS}}<\/p>\n<p>The pope told those gathered for the special mass in Saint Peter\u2019s Square that in \u201can age when care for one\u2019s body has become an obsession and a big business, anything imperfect has to be hidden away, since it threatens the happiness and serenity of the privileged few and endangers the dominant model.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crowd of sick and handicapped faithful had come to Rome for the jubilee which ran from Friday to Sunday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12766 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/957617-01-02.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis (right) waves to faithfull as he arrives for his audience with participants at the Conference for people with disabilities, promoted by CEI (Italian Episcopal Conference), in Aula Paolo VI at the Vatican, on June 11, 2016.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{He pointed to the way body image has become big business and \u201canything imperfect has to be hidden away\u201d.} Pope Francis, addressing an audience of 20,000 sick and handicapped people at the Vatican on Sunday, decried the marginalisation of those with disabilities, pointing to the way body image has become big business and \u201canything imperfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[228],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-26035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-afp"],"bylines":[{"id":228,"name":"AFP","slug":"afp","description":"Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris. 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