Vatican City, Jun 9, 2017 / 15:31 pm
Pope Francis participated in a Google Hangout on Friday with youth from around the world, emphasizing that "everyone has meaning," even though the world will try to exclude certain people.
Combatting a world which promotes elitism and exclusion, the Pope said June 9, "you have a meaning, everyone … has meaning, you have a meaning, it is in your hands to discover the meaning I have in life, what I am like, with the potentiality that you can … and how to give this meaning to others."
The hangout, Pope Francis' third time for the meeting, was organized for the inauguration of a new Vatican office of the Scholas Occurentes, a world-wide initiative in schools to encourage social integration and the culture of encounter through technology, arts, and sports.
Society "is accustomed to exclude, to select, to attack, to shut out people," he lamented.