INQUIRER.net: Pope warns Catholics against money, success, power, pleasure ‘idols’

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Pope warns Catholics against money, success, power, pleasure 'idols' Jul 25th 2013, 00:12 APARECIDA—Pope Francis warned Catholics on Wednesday against "ephemeral idols" like money at his first public Mass in his native Latin America as huge crowds lined the streets to cheer him.   More than 200,000 pilgrims braved cold rain to welcome the pontiff as he entered the grandiose basilica of the Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in Sao Paulo state.   "What joy I feel as I come to the house of the mother of every Brazilian, the Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida," he said in his homily after receiving and holding in his arms a black statue of the venerated Virgin Mary.   The 76-year-old pontiff, who arrived in Brazil on Monday for a weeklong Catholi... Keep on reading: Pope warns Catholics against money, success, power, pleasure 'idols'

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