Pope Frances gave a sermon that was filled with frustration. He said: “Christmas is approaching: there will be lights, parties, Christmas trees and nativity scenes… it’s all a charade. The world continues to go to war. The world has not chosen a peaceful path.”

His sermon came at a time when at least 29 people killed in a hotel siege in Mali’s capital Bamako, 130 died in multiple terror attacks in Paris, 41 in Beirut and 224 dead with the bombing of the Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The pontiff condemned violence and said that instead of celebrations the world should feel remorse and ask for “grace to weep.”

“We should ask for the grace to weep for this world, which does not recognise the path to peace. To weep for those who live for war and have the cynicism to deny it,” the Pope said, adding “God weeps, Jesus weeps.”

“Those who make war are damned, they’re delinquents. War can be ‘justified’ for many reasons. But when the whole world is at war, as it is today… there is no justification,” he said.

He made his statements at the Vatican at the unveiling of the 25-meter Christmas treedelivered to St. Peter’s square from Germany’s Bavaria, former pope Benedict XVI’s homeland. The pine will be decorated before the Vatican’s Holy Year begins on December 8, with Christmas ornaments made by cancer-afflicted children from all over Italy.

But the pope wonders if its all just a charade.