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We are living a new Babel, distressing daily events: Pope

13:22 27 MAG 2012 

(AGI) Vatican City - 

The Pope said in his homily today that we are living in a "new Babel" with distressing "everyday events.

  [...] People seem to be becoming increasingly aggressive and quarrelsome, they don't take the time to look dispassionately at themselves and thus remain locked within themselves.

" The Pope was speaking during the Pentecostal mass at St Peter's. 

He also said "Pentecost is a celebration of human unity, understanding and communion" and it remains so in our world, in which people have got closer but "understanding and communion is often superficial and problematic." Everybody experiences "inner conflict, division, riven by human and spiritual impulses. 

We cannot obey them all. We cannot be egoists and generous people simultaneously, or follow trends and lord it over others while experiencing the joy of disinterested service." 

He added "We constantly have to choose which impulse to follow and we can only do this properly with the guidance of the Holy Spirit." .

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