Holy Father Pope Francis while addressing the members of the Catholic Shalom Community during an audience meet in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall conveyed the youth to steer clear of modern society’s narcissistic tendencies, which he referred to as a vain illness. His Holiness also reminded the faithful that they should instead concentrate on helping others and on developing a healthy ability to laugh at oneself.
As reported by Vatican News, Holy Father Pope Francis remarked that “The culture that we live in, which is very selfish, looking at yourself has a very strong dose of the narcissism of contemplating oneself and ignoring others.” Further His Holiness added, “In turn, narcissism produces sadness because you live worried about dressing up your soul every day to appear better than you are, contemplating to see if you are more beautiful than others.”
His Holiness asked the youth to break the mirror of narcissism and warned not to look in that mirror again but instead reflected to look outside and to look at others.
