Pope: 50% of youth with no job is ‘an atrocity’

Asked why he doesn’t use his bulletproof popemobile, Pope Francis likened it to a glass “sardine can” keeping him from the people. “It’s true that anything could happen, but let’s face it,” he quipped, “at my age I don’t have much to lose.” It was one of the few light moments in an otherwise hard-hitting, wide-ranging interview with La Vanguardia, a Spanish newspaper. Turning to economics, Francis launched a scathing attack on the “idolatrous” global system which, for the sake of greed and profits, has left tens of millions of young people in the EU alone without work.

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Church must defend marriage and the family – Archbishop

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has called for a vigorous, fearless and multi-sided defence of marriage and family life in Irish society today. “We need to restore confidence in the family,” he said. “We need to work on that idealism of love which is in our young people. Every new marriage expresses a desire for happiness and fulfilment.”

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