Papal message to university students
October 17, 2014
Pope Francis has written a message to the Italian Catholic Federation of University Students on the occasion of the upcoming beatification of Pope Paul VI, who served as the federation’s chaplain from 1925 to 1933.
In the papal message, which centered around reflections on “study,” “research,” and “frontier,” the Pope called on students to reject “partial truths” and “comforting illusions,” to avoid “superficiality, haste, relativism,” and to grow in the intellectual and spiritual life.
The Pope also invited the students to see the university as a frontier in which there is “existential poverty” and called upon them to bring hope to those who suffer from loneliness.
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