Pope Leo XIV sounded the alarm about loneliness among young people on Thursday in audience with the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools congregation.
The American pontiff, who was elected the new leader of the Catholic Church a week ago, focused on the "obstacles to address" in relationships with young people and their education.
"Let us think of the isolation caused by rampant relational models increasingly marked by superficiality, individualism and emotional instability; of the spread of patterns of thought weakened by relativism; of the prevalence of rhythms and lifestyles in which there is not enough room for listening, reflection and dialogue, at school, in the family and, at times, among the peers themselves, with the resulting loneliness," Pope Leo said.
