Amid scandals, Pope Francis says youth ask: ‘Can’t you see nobody is listening to you?’
Amid scandals, Pope Francis says youth ask: ‘Can’t you see nobody is listening to you?’
Amid scandals, Pope Francis says youth ask: ‘Can’t you see nobody is listening to you?’
As the Catholic Church prepares for a summit of bishops in October focusing on youth and vocations within the wider context of clerical sex abuse scandals around the world, Pope Francis called for the Church to be converted and to answer young people’s call for change.
According to a report published in Catholic Church News and Analysis and Commenting Web Site CRUX, by its FAITH AND CULTURE CORRESPONDENT -
“When we adults refuse to acknowledge some evident reality, you tell us frankly: ‘Can’t you see this?’ Some of you who are a bit more forthright might even say to us: ‘Don’t you see that nobody is listening to you anymore, or believes what you have to say?’” the pope acknowledged during an ecumenical meeting with youth in Tallin, Estonia.
According to the CRUX report
“We ourselves need to be converted,” Francis added, “we have to realize that in order to stand by your side we need to change many situations that, in the end, put you off.”
Pope Francis was on the last stop of is a four-day pastoral visit to the Baltic States, Sep. 22-25. On Tuesday Pope Francis mentioned the sex abuse crisis.
Young people “are upset by sexual and economic scandals that do not meet with clear condemnation, by our unpreparedness to really appreciate the lives and sensibilities of the young, and simply by the passive role, we assign them. These are just a few of your complaints,” the pope said.
“We want to respond to them; as you yourselves put it, we want to be a ‘transparent, welcoming, honest, inviting, communicative, accessible, joyful and interactive community,” he added.
According to the CRUX report Speaking to the group, Pope Francis recognized that for many young people growing up today the concept of love may seem like a thing of the past. The growing number of divorces, the sense of abandonment generated by having to be uprooted and look for work elsewhere, the pope said, contribute to this feeling.
“It might seem that love is dead, but we know that it is not, and that we have a word to say, a message to bring, with few words and many actions. For you are a generation of images and action, more than speculation and theory,” Francis said. “And that is how Jesus likes it, because he went about doing good, and when dying he preferred the striking message of the cross over mere words.”
Earlier the Pope had said that Sexual relations between a man and woman joined together in marriage is “a gift that the Lord gives us. It has two purposes: for loving each other and generating life. It is passion, it is passionate love. True love is passionate,” There was much controversy on this statement by the Pope.
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