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Pope Francis a damning message to European leaders on Tuesday when he the European Parliament in Strasbourg. He what he saw as Europe's 'throwaway culture' where the elderly, the terminally ill and unborn children are . He said technology and economics more important to politicians than those suffering. He his audience: "Men and women being reduced to mere cogs in a machine that them as items of consumption to be exploited, with the result that whenever a human life no longer useful for that machine, it is discarded." He added: "It the inevitable consequence of a throwaway culture, and an uncontrolled consumerism".

The Pope very critical of Europe's politicians and systems. He that Europe's once dynamic, caring and artistic cultures were eroded by red-tape, saying: "The great ideas which once Europe seem to have lost their attraction, only to be by the bureaucratic technicalities of its institutions." He said bureaucracy was " as insensitive to individual peoples, if not downright harmful". The Pope said Europe losing its sense of community, : "One of the most common diseases in Europe today is the loneliness typical of those who no connection with others. This is especially true of the elderly, who are often to their fate, and also in the young."

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