Vatican City, Aug 2, 2018 / 09:14 am
Pope Francis met with a group of Jesuits Wednesday urging them to help youth who are unemployed, and who might be at risk of suicide, drug addiction, or of joining a terrorist organization.
Answering a question from a participant of a "European Jesuits in Formation" course, during a private audience in the anteroom of the Vatican's Paul VI Hall Aug. 1, the pope said youth unemployment "is a problem of dignity," and stressed it is an issue Jesuits should be working to help solve.
Unemployment, he said, may be "one of the most acute and painful problems for young people, because it goes right to the heart of the person. The person who has no work, feels [themselves to be] without dignity."
"This is important: understand the problem of young people," help them feel that you understand them, and "then move to solve this problem," he said.