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

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

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