Pope Francis: "Dear young people, you have it in you to shout. It is up to you not to keep quiet."

[Amaryllis]

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Very long snip, then this:

Meanwhile the pope seemed to refer to the demonstrations on Sunday when he addressed tens of thousands for a Palm Sunday service in St Peter’s Square.

“The temptation to silence young people has always existed,” Pope Francis said.

“There are many ways to silence young people and make them invisible. Many ways to anesthetize them, to make them keep quiet, ask nothing, question nothing. There are many ways to sedate them, to keep them from getting involved, to make their dreams flat and dreary, petty and plaintive.

“Dear young people, you have it in you to shout,” he said, without mentioning the anti-gun protests in the US directly. “It is up to you not to keep quiet. Even if others keep quiet, if we older people and leaders, some corrupt, keep quiet, if the whole world keeps quiet and loses its joy, I ask you: will you cry out?”

The young people in the crowd shouted: “Yes!”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/25/march-for-our-lives-parkland-students-excoriate-nra-politicians

[sharedvalues]

1. Not just young people. We all must raise our voices

And demand democracy and equality of opportunity.


No more gun CEOs and American oligarchs like the Koches abusing our political system for their profit. We need to take back America from the very wealthy.

[RainCaster]

2. This is the most Christian pope I have seen in 60 years.

I wish him the best. He will need it.

[Amaryllis]

3. Same here. And I spent 12 years in Catholic schools in the 50s and 60s.

[Flaleftist]

4. Ruh oh

[USsoccerfan]

5. Sounds like a good Pope

Liberalism is lot better for Christianity than conservatism.