VATICAN CITY - "If on the one hand we must not forget that young people await the word and example of adults, at the same time we must bear in mind that they have a lot to offer with their enthusiasm, their commitment and their thirst for truth, through which they constantly remind us of the fact that hope is not a utopia and peace is always a possible good ". So the Pope in the speech to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Vatican.
"We saw it in the way many young people are working to raise political leaders' awareness of the issue of climate change," stressed the Pope.
The Pope devoted a large passage of his speech to the subject. "The care of our common home must be a concern for everyone and not an object of ideological opposition between different visions of reality, let alone between generations".
According to Francesco, "the custody of the place that was given to us by the Creator to live cannot therefore be neglected or reduced to an elitist problem". "Young people tell us that it cannot be so, since there is an urgent challenge, at all levels, to protect our common home and 'to unite the whole human family in the search for sustainable and integral development'", he continued.
"They - he indicated - remind us of the urgent need for an ecological conversion, which must be understood in an integral way, as a transformation of the relationships we have with our sisters and brothers, with other living beings, with creation in its rich variety, with the Creator being the origin of all life '".
Pope: urgent ecological conversion not acquired by politics
"Weak response on climate, Cop25 failure alarm bell"
VATICAN CITY - "Unfortunately - Pope Francis highlighted in his speech to the Diplomatic Corps -, the urgency of this ecological conversion does not seem to be acquired by international politics, whose answer to the problems posed by global issues such as that of climate change is still very weak and a source of strong concern ". "The XXV Session of the Conference of States Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25), held in Madrid last December, represents a serious alarm bell about the will of the international community to deal wisely and effectively with the phenomenon of global warming, which requires a collective response, capable of making the common good prevail over particular interests, "he added.