Immediately before I read Christ is Alive, Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation on young people, I had ploughed through the 2019 Australian government report The Mental Health of Children and Adolescents. That document, which alerted us to the deteriorating mental health of young Australians, makes grim reading. Something is terribly wrong when, in most developed countries, the biggest killer of young adults is now suicide.
30 May 2019, The Tablet
By offering hope we can help our young people create meaning in their lives
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