Pope to students: Don't waste youth, respect diversity of thought

Pope to students: Don't waste youth, respect diversity of thought

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Joshua J. McElwee  |  Dec. 1, 2013

Speaking during a prayer service for students at Rome's universities, Pope Francis on Saturday urged the young people to not waste their youth and to pursue big projects beyond the scope of the ordinary.
Francis urged the students not to look at life as if from the balcony of a building but to "mingle" at ground level "where there are the challenges of the contemporary world."
"He does not live who does not respond to the challenges" facing the world regarding poverty and issues of human dignity, the pontiff said.