Pope Benedict XVI -- leading the world's Roman Catholics into Christmas -- today (December 24, 2012) urged people to find room for God in their fast-paced lives filled with the latest technological gadgets, according to the Reuters website.
The 85-year-old pope -- marking the eighth Christmas season of his pontificate -- celebrated a solemn Christmas Eve mass in St. Peter's Basilica, during which he appealed for a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict and an end to the civil war in Syria.
At the mass for some 10,000 people in the basilica -- and broadcast to millions of others on television -- the pope wove his homily around the theme of God's place in today's modern world.
"The faster we can move, the more efficient our time-saving appliances become, the less time we have. And God? The question of God never seems urgent. Our time is already completely full," the pope said.
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