The Pope to young people: 'Do not be infected by the virus of individualism'

"Don't let yourself be infected by the virus of individualism. This is bad, and it hurts." The Pope said this

in the video message for the inauguration of the academic year of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart which takes place in Milan. "The university is the right place to develop antibodies against this virus: the university opens your mind to reality and diversity; there you can put your talents on the line and make them available to everyone". "The openness and acceptance of the other is therefore particularly important, because it fosters a bond of solidarity between generations and fights individualistic tendencies", he added. 

"As students of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart you belong to a community of studies with solid roots, from which you can draw on for your training and to renew, every day, the enthusiasm to go forward and assume your responsibility in society. to become traditionalists of the roots, no, to take from the roots to grow, to move forward, to gamble on life. This is the horizon that I propose to you in this centenary ". It is necessary to overcome "the category of the Enlightenment" and leave room for "a new, creative thought" Pope Francis affirms. "The world, today above all, is totally interdependent; this condition requires an unprecedented effort, because this epochal change has made the interpretative frames of the past are obsolete,which are no longer useful for understanding the present. It is a question of designing new models of thought, to define solutions to the urgencies we are called to face: from environmental to economic, from social to demographic ". In this" the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart can represent a privileged place for the advanced development of this cultural elaboration ".