Keep shouting, don't become anesthetized, pope tells young people

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



MARCH 25, 2018 / 6:15 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Philip Pullella

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, starting Holy Week services leading to Easter, urged young people on Sunday to keep shouting and not allow the older generations to silence their voices or anesthetize their idealism.

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Drawing on biblical parallels, Francis urged the young people in the crowd not to let themselves be manipulated.

“The temptation to silence young people has always existed,” Francis said in the homily of a Mass.

“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,” he said.




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[Ohiogal]

1. Thus begins

a huge exodus away from the church by all the old fogies. I knew of one in particular who said they were going to leave the Catholic church because the Pope is "too Marxist." LOL Unbelievable.

[Aristus]

2. Yeah, like that dirty, long-haired socialist, Joshua Josephson.

Unbelievable is right.

[Crowman2009]

3. But these old fogies were all right with child rape by the priesthood?!?

Shows where their priorities lie.

[Skittles]

4. tells you what their "faith" actuall means