‘Believe you can face the adventure of a lifelong love,’ Pope Francis wrote in youth catechism preface
April 30, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: In a previously unpublished preface to the youth catechism YOUCAT: Love forever, Pope Francis compared love to a tango and encouraged youth to “believe that you can face the adventure of a lifelong love.”
The Pope asked rhetorically, “How many marriages today fail after three, five, seven years? Wouldn’t it be better, then, to avoid pain, to only touch each other as in a passing dance, to enjoy each other, to play together, and then leave each other?”
He responded, “Don’t believe it! Believe in love, believe in God, and believe that you can face the adventure of a lifelong love.”
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