LA Times · Jul 10, 2015
In Bolivia, Pope Francis warns against discarding the weak
Pope Francis greets people on July 9 after a Mass at the Christ the Redeemer Park, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. (Martine Alipaz, European Pressphoto Agency)Speaking about the poor among the poor, Pope Francis on Thursday urged hundreds of thousands of worshipers gathered in the Bolivian lowlands to avoid a culture that would "discard" those people deemed less productive.
And speaking later to a group of indigenous people and peasants, he made a remarkable demand for structural economic change and added an apology for the colonial-era atrocities committed “in the name of God.”