Pope Francis laments Christmas festivities while ’the whole world is at war’

CBC, Nov. 24, 2015 - Pope Francis is lamenting the bright lights and parties of the Christmas season while 'the whole world is at war.'
'It’s all a charade,' the Pope said during a mass at Vatican City last Thursday, AFP reported.
The Pope made the remarks six days after the Nov. 13 Paris shootings and suicide bombings that left 130 people dead. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the deadliest attacks on France since the Second World War. 
At the time, the Pope called the attacks 'not human.'
ISIS also claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings that killed dozens of people and wounded hundreds more in Beirut the day before the Paris attacks, and for downing a Russian charter jet over Egypt.  
France reacted swiftly to the Paris attacks with airstrikes on the city of Raqqa, ISIS’s de-facto capital in Syria. French President François Hollande has also called on the U.S. and Russia to join a global coalition to destroy ISIS, declaring that 'France is at war.'
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During the mass on Thursday, the Pope said, 'Today Jesus weeps ... because we have chosen the way of war, the way of hatred,' according to a Vatican Radio report with quotes translated into English published on the official Vatican news website. 
'We are close to Christmas: there will be lights, there will be parties, bright trees, even nativity scenes — all decked out — while the world continues to wage war. The world has not understood the way of peace.
'A war can be justified, so to speak, with many, many reasons, but when all the world as it is today, at war — piecemeal though that war may be — a little here, a little there, and everywhere, there is no justification,' the Pope said. 'God weeps. Jesus weeps.'