Pope Francis left Hungary, but mocked globalism first
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Pope Francis left Budapest following an official farewell ceremony on Sunday afternoon, with his aircraft taking off from Liszt Ferenc International short after 6pm. The pontiff concluded a three-day apostolic visit to Hungary.
He was bid farewell by President Katalin Novák, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, Hungarian church leaders and around a hundred of volunteers waving flags of Hungary and the Vatican. Novák earlier handed over a bundle of cheese-straws she had personally prepared for the pope as a farewell gift, MTI wrote.
Pope Francis warns of risks of ‘shifting from communism to consumerism
Pope Francis, in his address at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University, warned of the risks of “shifting from communism to consumerism” in a closing event of his three-day visit to Budapest. Meeting representatives of academic and cultural life at the university’ Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics on Sunday afternoon, the pontiff emphasised the importance of self-knowledge, the recognition of one’s limitations and curbing the presumption of self-sufficiency. He said the first of two thoughts he wanted to leave with his audience was “Know thyself”, citing the famous maxim from the temple of Delphi. Knowing yourself, the pope said meant that “we must be able to recognise our limitations and, consequently, to curb the presumption of self-sufficiency”. He said that “once we realise that we are creatures, we become creative”, adding that “we learn to immerse ourselves in the world instead of attempting to dominate it”.