Rome, 28 September (LaPresse) – "The Lord looks into the hearts of men and, through his eyes, we recognise the needy and the indifferent. Lazarus is forgotten by those who stand before him, just beyond the door of his house, yet God is close to him and remembers his name. The man who lives in abundance, on the other hand, is nameless, because he loses himself, forgetting his neighbour. He is lost in the thoughts of his heart, full of things and empty of love. His possessions do not make him good. The story that Christ gives us is, unfortunately, very relevant today. At the gates of opulence today lies the misery of entire peoples, plagued by war and exploitation. Throughout the centuries, nothing seems to have changed: how many Lazaruses die in the face of greed that forgets justice, profit that tramples on charity, wealth that is blind to the pain of the poor." Thus Pope Leo XIV, in his homily at Mass in St. Peter's Square on the occasion of the Jubilee of Catechists.