Wise words for next generation
IN my opinion, the best advice lately has been from Pope Benedict to 200,000 young pilgrims gathered in Australia.
He is urging the young people of the world to reject the "spiritual desert" which, he says, is spreading throughout the globe.
He said the young would be responsible for building a "New Age" free from 'greed, apathy and selfishness.'
Although not Catholic myself, I found his words refreshing.
He described the "desert" as 'an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.'
Many older people will surely recognise the sense in his words, possibly more than younger folk.
ANDREW REVILL, Redmayne Grove, Knottingley
The full article contains 113 words and appears in EP Leeds First & County newspaper.
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Last Updated:
26 July 2008 10:13 AM
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Source:
EP Leeds First & County
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Location:
Leeds
