Pope: Young people want to hear Word of God

Friday, August 19, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI has said young people desire to know God in a world filled with superficiality, consumerism, and the “widespread banalisation of sexuality”.

Speaking at the start of his four-day visit to Madrid on Wednesday, the Pope said the reason so many young people had gathered in the Spanish capital was because they “wish to hear the Word of God” and “manifest the strength of their faith”.

Up to one million Catholic youths are in the city for World Youth Day, the Catholic Church’s international youth festival which takes place every three years.

“Many of them have heard the voice of God, perhaps only as a little whisper, which has led them to search for him more diligently and to share with others the experience of the force which he has in their lives," he said. the rest