Too many in terrible conditions in Rome

(ANSA) - Vatican City, December 31 - Pope Francis said at the traditional year-end Te Deum in St Peter's basilica Monday that "we must stop and reflect with pain and repentance because, also during this year coming to an end, so many men and women have lived and are living in conditions of slavery, unworthy of human beings".
    He said "also in our city of Rome there are brothers and sisters who, for various reasons, find themselves in this state.
    "I'm thinking in particular of how many live without a home.
    There are more than 10,000 of them," he said, and "in winter their situation is particularly hard".