Pope warns the West against ‘excluding God’

POPE Benedict XVI yesterday warned modern societies not to let faith in science and technology make them deaf to God’s message, and suggested that Asia and Africa could teach the West something about faith.

In his sermon to some 250,000 pilgrims at an open-air Mass in Munich, Benedict said modern people suffered from “hardness of hearing” when it comes to God.

“What is said about God strikes us as pre-scientific, no longer suited to our age,” he said.