I'm not Catholic but so far I am liking this Pope!
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Pope Francis told 30,000 young people from his native Argentina that he expected them to cause a “revolution” after World Youth Day. “Shake things up,” he urged them. “Don’t forget to make a mess, to disturb complacency!”
“What do I expect to come out of this World Youth Day?” Pope Francis asked. “I expect a revolution, not just here in Rio, but in all dioceses! I want you to go out. I want the Church to go out into the streets!”
Francis went on to say, “You must not water down faith in Jesus Christ. Do not drink a watered down faith. Faith is whole, it is not watered down. It is faith in Jesus, the Son of God, made man.”
“There are many young people who neither study nor work,” he said, observing that there are few opportunities for youth. “They do not have the experience of the dignity of work,” he said, noting high levels of unemployment.
“This civilization has led to the exclusion of the two extremes,” the pontiff said. “Young people have to go out and fight for values. The elders have to open their mouths. We need to pass on the wisdom of the people. Do not hesitate to be a cultural reserve that transmits the memory of the people.”
“You must not let yourselves be marginalized,” Pope Francis urged, and cautioned the young Argentines that the world “has made a cult, a god, of money.”
“We are before a philosophy that exults material goods,” the pontiff observed.
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