https://uk.yahoo.com/news/pope-invites-thousands-poor-lunch-145254524.htmlSo the Pope has had dinner with 1,200 'poor people' for the Catholic church's World Day of the Poor.
1,200 hardly qualifies as 'thousands' and one day seems a short time considering the immense wealth of the Catholic Church asnd the fact that some of the poorest people on this Earth, in South America, are Catholic and they still contribute to the collectiopn at every Mass they attend.