On Sunday, Pope Francis ate lunch with hundreds of refugees and homeless people, calling for a renewed commitment to helping society’s weakest while denouncing the “sirens of populism” which drown out cries for help. As reported by the Associated Press, the Pope celebrated World Day of the Poor by inviting around 1,300 people into the Vatican for lunch. But it was the words during the Mass which preceded it which made headlines, with Pope Francis denouncing not only what he called the indifference the world shows to migrants and the poor, but the “prophets of doom” who fuel fear and conspiracies about migrants.