Beware of the virus of ‘selfish indifference’, says pope on Divine Mercy Sunday

Vatican City, Apr 19, 2020 / 05:00 am (CNA).- Humanity could be struck by “an even worse virus” after the coronavirus crisis, that of “selfish indifference”, Pope Francis said as he celebrated Mass on Divine Mercy Sunday.

Preaching at Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome’s official Divine Mercy church, April 19, the pope said that we risk forgetting the poor as we eagerly await the end of the pandemic.