Comments on: Pope to Young People: God loves you, the Church needs you https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2019/04/03/pope-to-young-people-god-loves-you-the-church-needs-you/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:01:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 By: Hamish McDonald https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2019/04/03/pope-to-young-people-god-loves-you-the-church-needs-you/#comment-24493 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:01:05 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=19456#comment-24493 This is a wonderful message, and it is for the church of the future, and the church of today.
It is important that young people enter the mystery.
Many beautiful stories exist of young saints and even young martyrs.

But it has one flaw: TIMING
Only after significant expensive lawsuits have been sent out,
damning the church in monstrous ways on pedophilia,
that this has surfaced.
Meanwhile, youth have voted with their feet.
Pope Francis, you really need someone to re-prioritise your activities desperately.
You should have put young people FIRST on your agenda when you became Pope, not LAST.

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