17 February 2017 | Address of His Holiness, Speeches

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO “ROMA TRE” UNIVERSITY

[…] Many urgent social issues and situations of hardship and poverty challenge us: let us consider the people who live on the streets, of migrants, of those in need, not only of food and clothing, but of integration into society, such as those who come out of prison. In reaching out to this social poverty, we become protagonists of constructive actions which oppose the destructive action of violent conflict and also oppose the culture of hedonism and waste, based on the idols of money, pleasure, appearances…. Instead, by working on projects, even small ones which favour encounter and solidarity, together we can recover a sense of trust in life. […]