Vatican City, Oct 31, 2019 / 09:25 am
Pope Francis spoke Thursday about education as a path to peace, saying that if people of faith do not transmit concrete values to young people, the message will get stuck in the incomprehensible abstract.
"The responsibility towards the new generations requires above all the commitment to form them and listen to them in order to respond to the challenges of our times, without denying the immutable value of truth, but with a comprehensible and current language," the pope said Oct. 31.
Speaking at an interreligious event at the Pontifical Lateran University, he stated that "many times we too, women and men of faith, limit ourselves to giving indications rather than transmitting the experience of values and virtues."
"And so, in the face of conflicts and the need to build peace, we do not realize that our message is likely to be abstract and remain unheard," he added.