What new word can I share with you my friends? Since then (1) many long years have passed. A new generation has arisen, tested by unique experience and, perhaps, touched by a new skepticism born from contact with the Western world estranged from the right Faith.
Perhaps today, even more so than when I delivered those “Seven Homilies to the Youth” (1), the soul of young people – whom I consider as much my friends as I did back then (because I still speak in the name of Jesus Christ) – is increasingly assaulted by mental illness.