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Upon his arrival in Lisbon, on Wednesday, Pope Francis made an impassioned plea for Europe to revive the ideals of its founders and seek to build bridges of peace, fraternity and inclusion with “creativity” in a world incapable of dealing with widespread problems “in a united way”.
It can therefore suggest “a different path” from that followed in our divided world “incapable” of confronting together “what threatens us all”, including ”planetary injustice, wars, climate and migration crises”.
He mentioned specifically its increased investments in sophisticated weapons, which represent “a depletion of its authentic human capital: that of education, health, the welfare state.” “It is troubling," the Pope remarked,"when we read that in many places funds continue to be invested in arms rather than in the future of the young.”
“Where are you sailing, Europe and the West, with the discarding of the elderly, walls of barbed wire, massive numbers of deaths at sea and empty cradles? Where are you sailing if, before life’s ills, you offer hasty but mistaken remedies: like easy access to death, a convenient answer that seems ‘sweet’ but is in fact more bitter than the waters of the sea?”In the face of these setbacks, the Pope remarked that the thousands of young people pouring into Lisbon from the five continents to share...
“How can we claim to believe in young people, if we do not give them healthy spaces in which to build the future?” he asked.“Young people are the future,” he said, yet they suffer lack of jobs, the dizzying pace of contemporary life, hikes in the cost of living, the difficulty of finding housing and of creating a family.
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